Rome, March 3. One of the sisters of what was believed to be Cosa Nostra’s last godfather, Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested on January 16 after 30 years on the run from justice, was arrested today because he was believed to be the person who managed family money and ran the mafia. boss communication network.
Rosalía Messina Denaro, known as Rosetta, 68, was arrested by the carabinieri of Castelvetrano, in the historic family home, on the orders of prosecutors Maurizio de Lucia and Paolo Guido who carried out the investigations which also led to the Arrest of Cosa Nostra “boss boss” on charges of mafia association, Italian media report today.
Rosalía is the eldest of five Messina Denaro siblings, she had never been directly involved in the investigations, however her husband, Filippo Guttadauro, was always considered one of the most reliable men of the capo arrested on the 16th January.
Her son Francesco, considered Matteo Messina Denaro’s favorite nephew, arrested in 2013 along with the fugitive’s younger sister, Anna Patrizia, while Rosalia’s other daughter is Lorenza Guttadauro, currently the chief’s appointed lawyer for his defense , are stopped. .
Now, the investigations indicate that Rosalía was the person in charge of managing the family coffers, covering the economic needs of his brother during the 30 years on the run, as well as taking care of the transmission network of the “pizzini”, the small pieces of paper with which the gangsters communicate their orders to the rest of the gangster family members and which allowed Messina Denaro to continue issuing orders from hiding.
Rosalía’s arrest came after he also arrested Messina Denaro driver Giovanni Luppino, the person who gave him his fake family identity Andrea Bonafede, Campobello di Mazara doctor Alfonso Tumbarello and a second namesake Andrea Bonafede, who is the one who withdrew the medical prescriptions of the “capo” who suffers from cancer.
Messina Denaro was arrested on his way to a private clinic in Palermo for medical treatment.
Later, several houses were discovered in which the mafia boss has been hiding in recent years in the town of Campobello di Mazara, in the province of Trapani, a few kilometers from Castelvetrano, the birthplace of Messina Denaro and where his family resides. EFE
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