Messina Denaro in a 1993 photograph for his driver's license
Born
(1962-04-26)26 April 1962
Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy
Died
25 September 2023(2023-09-25) (aged 61)
L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy
Other names
Diabolik U Siccu ("The Skinny")
Occupation
Mafia boss
Criminal status
Deceased (imprisoned from 2023)
Children
1
Allegiance
Cosa Nostra
Conviction(s)
Mafia association Multiple murders
Criminal charge
Mafia association Multiple murders
Penalty
Life imprisonment (in absentia)
Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation:[matˈtɛːomesˈsiːnadeˈnaːro]; Sicilian: Matteu Missina Dinaru; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano. He was considered to be one of the new leaders of the Sicilian mob after the arrests of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006 and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007. The son of a Mafia boss, Denaro became known nationally on 12 April 2001 when the magazine L'Espresso put him on the cover with the headline: Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia ("Here is the new Mafia boss").[1]
Messina Denaro became a fugitive on the most wanted list in 1993; according to Forbes in 2010, he was one of the ten most wanted and powerful criminals in the world.[2][3] With the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017, Messina Denaro was seen as the unchallenged boss of all bosses within the Mafia. After 30 years on the run, he was arrested on 16 January 2023 near a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was reportedly undergoing chemotherapy under a false name. Messina Denaro died in a prison hospital on 25 September 2023 after falling into an irreversible coma at the age of 61, after receiving treatment for colon cancer.
^Cite error: The named reference Espresso was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, Forbes Magazine, 13 May 2010
^Who is now on the World's Most Wanted list? Archived 10 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, 4 May 2011
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