{"id":5567,"date":"2023-01-24T06:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2023-01-24T06:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:01:35","slug":"italian-cops-arrest-man-whose-id-helped-fugitive-mobster-avoid-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/italian-cops-arrest-man-whose-id-helped-fugitive-mobster-avoid-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian cops arrest man whose ID helped fugitive mobster avoid capture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press<\/strong> – Italian police in Sicily on Monday arrested the man whose identity was used by a convicted Mafia boss who had been Italy\u2019s No. 1 fugitive for 30 years, authorities said.<\/p>

\"\"\/
A screengrab taken from a video shows Matteo Messina Denaro the country’s most wanted mafia boss being escorted out of a Carabinieri police station after he was arrested in Palermo, Italy, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023.\u00a0PHOTO BY CARABINIERI \/ HANDOUT\u00a0\/REUTERS<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>

Carabinieri police said that Andrea Bonafede had been arrested on a warrant issued by judicial authorities in Palermo. Investigators contend that Bonafede received 20,000 euros ($22,000) money from Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro to buy a house in western Sicily that served as one of the fugitive\u2019s hideouts.<\/p>

When Messina Denaro was captured last week at a Palermo clinic where he was receiving chemotherapy, he was using an official identity card with Bonafede\u2019s name but with his own photo. During the arrest, police also took into custody another man who had driven him to the clinic.<\/p>

Police have searched at least three homes in the town of Campobello di Mazara, in western Sicily, near Trapani, which they say Messina Denaro had been using as hideouts over the last several months. It was one of these homes that was purchased by Bonafede, investigators said.<\/p>

In issuing the warrant for Bonafede\u2019s arrest, Judge Alfredo Montalto said Bonafed was suspected of being a member of Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian Mafia is known, and helping Messina Denaro to carry out his role as a major mob boss.<\/p>

Thanks to Bonafede\u2019s allowing Messina Denaro to use his identity, the fugitive was \u201cable to move on the territory (of Italy), eluding law enforcement, as well as to access National Health Care without revealing his real identity,\u201d according to the accusations in the warrant.<\/p>

Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>

<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associated Press – Italian police in Sicily on Monday arrested the man whose identity was used by a convicted Mafia boss who had been Italy\u2019s No. 1 fugitive for 30…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t