Italy’s final mafia capo, Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, has continued to make headlines. However this time it is not about these chargeable for unlawful playing, homicide and drug trafficking. As an alternative, it is a few native politician and police officer who allegedly tried to promote labeled paperwork about him.
Palermo’s anti-mafia police arrested Giorgio Randazzo, Mazara del Vallo metropolis councilor in Sicily, and police officer Luigi Pirolo on Thursday. As a part of the continuing investigation, Fabrizio Corona, dubbed the “king of the paparazzi” within the Italian media, can also be arrested.
Randazzo and Pirolo allegedly tried to promote confidential paperwork in regards to the seize of Denaro to Corona. Capo, whose life sentence for the murders of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino was upheld Wednesday by an appeals courtroom, was arrested in January this yr after greater than 30 years in hiding.
Anti-Mafia Turns into Gang
Randazzo and Pirolo have been reportedly planning to promote a sequence of confidential recordsdata associated to Denaro’s arrest to the very best bidder for tens of hundreds of euros. To that finish, they turned to Corona as a possible purchaser for the downloaded 768 recordsdata.
Corona then allegedly forwarded the recordsdata to his pal Moreno Pisto, who is alleged to be in command of the Italian on-line journal Mou. The journal has described itself as “provocative” and “disturbing”.
Pirolo, who allegedly stole paperwork from the Carabinieri’s servers, has been charged with unauthorized entry to authorities laptop techniques and violation of official secrets and techniques. Mr. Randazzo is at the moment contemplating costs of receiving stolen items and dealing in authorities secrets and techniques.
The Carabinieri arrested Randazzo and Pirolo on Thursday on orders from the Palermo prosecutor. They’re at the moment underneath home arrest. Though Mr. Corona faces costs of at the least receiving stolen items, he nonetheless needs to know what’s going to occur to him.
Corona kills himself by taking pictures himself within the leg
After apprehending the fugitive boss, Corona obtained a sequence of audio conversations between Kapo and a number of other individuals he met at a clinic present process chemotherapy. It was throughout his keep on the clinic that police arrested Denaro. Investigators realized there was a leak when Corona revealed he had a replica of the dialog.
This led a decide to approve a request by investigators to wiretap Corona’s cell phone to trace down the supply of the leak. Finally, the trade between Randazzo and Pirolo was captured on tape, a lucky byproduct of the wiretapping.
Investigators additionally enlisted the assistance of Mr. Pisto. Spanish media EFE reported that he was contacted by Corona and contacted the police with the main points of the stolen paperwork.
Denaro’s everlasting new house
Authorities arrested Denaro in mid-January at a most cancers hospital in Palermo, Italy, after fleeing authorities for 30 years. He now resides in L’Aquila Jail, the place he’s attempting to attraction his arrest and imprisonment. To this point he has failed.
Denaro was sentenced to life in jail by the Caltanissetta Courtroom of Appeals on Wednesday. He’s mentioned to be behind a number of murders, together with the 1992 bombing that claimed the lives of anti-mafia advocates Falcone and Borsellino.
The courtroom’s ruling coincides with the thirty first anniversary of the Palermo bombing that took Borsellino’s life and killed 5 safety guards. Along with killing Falcone and Borsellino, Denaro was additionally convicted of murdering the 12-year-old son of a fellow mafia who rebelled towards the mob. The boy had been strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996.
Along with assassinations, Denaro additionally carried out mutilation and wounding. On the trial, he was discovered responsible of assorted bombing assaults on artwork and spiritual websites in cities throughout Italy, injuring greater than 40 individuals and killing 10.
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