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Saturday, July 7, 2012

BOSS OF THE BOSSES OF MAFIA

Everyone knows about Yakuza, Triads, Russian mobsters,Colombian and Mexican Drug Lords but the most popular of them all is The Mafia,they are from Italy and only from the island Sicily.


THE MAFIA/COSA NOSTRA





  • The Mafia was described in an Italian financial report as the country’s richest “firm ”, with a turnover of more than £116billion a year.

The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering. Each group, known as a "family", "clan", or "cosca", claims sovereignty over a territory in which it operates its rackets – usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city. Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often refers to them as "mafiosi".
According to the classic definition, the Mafia is a criminality originating in Sicily.However, the term "mafia" has become a generic term for any organized criminal network with similar structure, methods, and interests.

The Mafia proper frequently parallels, collaborates with or clashes with, networks originating in other parts of southern Italy, such as the Camorra (from Campania), the 'Ndrangheta (from Calabria), the Stidda (southern Sicily) and the Sacra Corona Unita (from Apulia).

The American Mafia arose from offshoots of the Mafia that emerged in the United States during the late nineteenth century, following waves of emigration from Sicily. There were similar offshoots in Canada among Italian Canadians. However, while the same has been claimed of organised crime in Australia,[3] this appears to result from confusion with 'Ndrangheta, which is generally regarded as more prominent among Italian Australians.

After The First Mafia Wars,The Smuggling Boom World Wide,The Second Mafia Wars and Maxi Trial and Mafia's war against the Government. Bosses like Cesare Manzella,Calcedonio Di Pisa, Luciano Leggio,Salvatore Riina, Leoluca Bagarella, Bernardo Provenzano had ruled the Mafia Rule.

But unllike these Bosses arose a Mafia Boss who was not well Cultured as these Traditional bosses who were breeded genetically to be well mannered and conservative in the Mafia World.But this tradition was changed by the current CAPO DEI CAPI(Boss OF the Bosses)

MATTEO MESSSINA DENARO
A.K.A DIABOLIK
  • "playboy don" with a weakness for sports cars and designer watches and sunglasses.The Richest Mafia.
  • He made a reputation by murdering rival boss Vincenzo Milazzo from Alcamo and strangling Milazzo’s three-months pregnant girlfriend.
 Matteo Messina Denaro became known nationally on April 12, 2001, when the magazine L'Espresso put him on the cover with the headline: Ecco il nuovo capo della mafia ("Here is the new boss of the Mafia"). He has been a fugitive since 1993 and according to Forbes magazine he is among the ten most wanted criminals in the world.

Messina Denaro is often portrayed as a" ruthless playboy mafioso and womaniser", driving an expensive Porsche sports car and wearing a Rolex Daytona watch, Ray Ban sunglasses and fancy clothes from Giorgio Armani and Versace. He is an ardent player of computer games and is said to have an illegitimate child. Matteo has a reputation for fast living and allegedly killed a Sicilian hotel owner who accused him of taking young girls to bed. As such, he is remarkably different from traditional Mafia bosses like Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano who claim to adhere to conservative family values.
Matteo Messina Denaro was born into a mafia family in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. His father Francesco Messina Denaro, known as Don Ciccio, was the capo mandamento of Castelvetrano and the head of the Mafia Commission of the Trapani region. Matteo learned to use a gun at 14, and committed his first of many murders at 18. He is estimated to have killed at least 50 people. "I filled a cemetery all by myself," he once bragged. He made a reputation by murdering rival boss Vincenzo Milazzo from Alcamo and strangling Milazzo’s three-months pregnant girlfriend.
 He is said to command some 900 men and apparently reorganised the 20 Mafia families in Trapani into one single mandamento separated from the rest of Cosa Nostra. The Trapani Mafia is considered the zoccolo duro (solid pedestal) of Cosa Nostra and the most powerful except for the families in Palermo.

Messina Denaro gets his money through an extensive extortion racket forcing businesses to pay a pizzo (protection money) and skimming off public construction contracts (the family owns substantial sand quarries). He is also active in the international drug trade, allegedly with the Cuntrera-Caruana clan, attracting attention of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

According to the Direzione distrettuale antimafia (DDA) of Palermo, he maintains contacts with relatives in Western New York and Vito Roberto Palazzolo, a fugitive Mafia boss in South Africa. He also has interests in Venezuela and contacts with Colombian drug trafficking cartels as well as the 'Ndrangheta. His illicit networks extend to Belgium and Germany.

Matteo Messina Denaro has strong links with Mafia families in Palermo, in particular in Brancaccio, territory of the Graviano Family. Filippo Guttadauro the brother of the Giuseppe Guttadauro – the regent of the Brancaccio Mafia while Giuseppe Graviano and Filippo Graviano are in jail – is the brother-in-law of Messina Denaro. They are involved in cocaine trafficking in agreement with ‘Ndrangheta clans from Platì, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica and Siderno, as well as the Mafia family of Mariano Agate.

 There is reason to believe that Messina Denaro has a good relationship to both Provenzano and the Gravianos.
More assets seized





In January 2010, police seized construction companies, villas, shops and vehicles worth some 550 million euros (USD 760 million) from a western Sicilian construction magnate, Rosario Cascio, believed to be one of the main bankrollers and money launderers for Messina Denaro. Together with 700 million euros (USD 970 million) in assets taken from supermarket magnate Giuseppe Grigoli at the end of 2008 and 200 million euros (USD 280 million) from construction tycoon Francesco Pecora in November 2009. In total 1.4 billion euros (USD 1.9 billion) have been seized, which is seen as a clear reminder of the deep-rooted economic power of Messina Denaro.
In September 2010, police seized a record amount of assets worth 1.5 bn euros (USD 2 billion) from a Sicilian businessman Vito Nicastri accused of working with Messina Denaro. He had invested in wind and solar energy sources, as a way of laundering money.[30] The Italian police is applying a new strategy to try to capture Messina Denaro, arresting scores of his underlings and seizing million of euros in assets. "The circle is closing around the No.1 fugitive," Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said. Palermo Chief Prosecutor Francesco Messineo added that the aim of the strategy against Messina Denaro was to "dry up the water he swims in".
With the arrest of Gerlandino Messina, the alleged boss of Agrigento, on October 23, 2010 in Favara, Agrigento province, the circle around Messina Denaro tightens even more, as notes addressed specifically to Messina Denaro to discuss territorial division, will provide clues to his whereabouts and recent activities.

Arrest attempts

On March, 15, 2010, his brother Salvatore Messina Denaro was arrested along with 18 others in operation "Golem 2". They were part of a network surrounding the Mafia boss, and were charged with organising Messina Denaro's secret correspondence in order to help him remain on the run. Other charges include mafia association, corruption and protection rackets.
On May 19, 2011, an attempt to arrest Matteo Messina Denaro failed. Police surrounded a manor farm ten minutes from his hometown Castelvetrano. They were tipped by the secret service Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (Italian for "Internal Information and Security Agency" - Aisi), which had provided useful information for the previous arrests of Mafia bosses Giuseppe Falsone and Gerlandino Messina. However, there was no trace of Messina Denaro.

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