Police in Sicily continue their fight against Matteo Messina Denaro one of Italy’s top mafia bosses who has been on the run since 1993.
According to a new report, authorities have seized four olive companies along with various other properties linked to the mafia bosses business empire. The latest seizure located in the heart of Messina Denaro’s alleged power base is estimated to be worth more than $14 million dollars. Along with the lucrative olive businesses were over 100 other properties along with bank accounts and vehicles owned by alleged accomplices.
“Matteo Messina Denaro”
The Cosa Nostra boss remains one of the most wanted fugitives in Italy and was featured in Forbes magazine as one of the ten most wanted men in the world. He is believed to have taken over as one of the top Sicilian mafia leaders after the organized crime group had multiple leaders convicted and sent to prison including Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo. According to estimates from Coldiretti a farm lobby, the various Italian mafia groups earn billions of dollars annually from agriculture. Part of this revenue stems from the use of threats forcing stores to sell products such as cheese produced by the mafia in Italy. Authorities have conducted multiple properties and business seizures over the last few years in an effort to weaken the mobster’s network in an effort to make him easier to locate.
Even it Italy it is amazing that this guy has been able to avoid law enforcement for so long esp being in Forbes magazine etc. He has had so much publicity now some world wide that the target on his back is huge yet he finds a way to stay hidden in the shadows.
This is the real Mafia, not the watered down Americanized shit.
I agree with you the mafia in the U.S doesn’t look to stay on their old traditions after all, the reason why they failed so hard was because they thought they could reform their old Sicilian La Cosa Nostra structure to an americanized way but it lasted until the 60s… If i was some high ranking mobster i would have came up with a new untreacable and working structure so where the fuck are the Luciano’s gone in the LCN??
true legend