One of the sisters of what was considered the last godfather of Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested on January 16 after 30 years on the run from Justice, was arrested today as he was considered the person who managed the family’s money and manage the mob boss’s communications network.
Rosalía Messina Denaro, known as Rosetta, 68, was arrested by the Carabinieri in Castelvetrano, in the historic family home, by order of the prosecutors Maurizio de Lucia and Paolo Guido who have conducted the investigations that also led to the arrest of the “head of bosses” of Cosa Nostra, and under the accusation of mafia association, the Italian media reported today.
Rosalía is the eldest of the five Messina Denaro siblings, she had never been directly involved in the investigations, however her husband, Filippo Guttadauro, has always been considered one of the most trusted men of the capo arrested on January 16.
His son Francesco, considered the favorite nephew of Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested in 2013 along with the fugitive’s younger sister, Anna Patrizia, while Rosalia’s other daughter is Lorenza Guttadauro, currently the lawyer appointed by the chief for his defense, are arrested. .
Now the investigations point to Rosalía being the person who was in charge of managing the family coffers, of covering the economic needs of her brother during the 30 years on the run, as well as dealing with the transmission network of the “pizzini”, the little pieces of paper with which the gangsters communicate their orders to the rest of the members of the gangster family and which allowed Messina Denaro to continue issuing orders from his hiding place.
Rosalia’s arrest came after having also arrested the Messina Denaro driver, Giovanni Luppino, the person who gave him his false and family identity Andrea Bonafede, the 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 when he went to a private health clinic in Palermo for medical treatment.
Later, several houses were discovered in which the mafia boss hid in recent years in the town of Campobello di Mazara, in the province of Trapani, a few kilometers from Castelvetrano, the hometown of Messina Denaro and where his family resides.
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