Meet the boss of Italy’s biggest business: The ruthless don running the £115billion mafia

Matteo Messina Denaro

Matteo Messina Denaro, aka “Diabolik”, became one of the super bosses of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra after the arrest of  “Boss Of Bosses”,  Bernardo Provenzano —Denaro is one of the most deadly Don’s the Sicilian mob  has even seen.

 Denaro killed his way up the ladder to a leadership position  in the powerful  Tropani Sicilian Mafia Clan –and ordered countless mob murders—  led a drug trafficking operation, but is now a fugitive on the lam, wanted by Interpol and the FBI , in his absence , the Massino Crime Family still thrives in the rackets of the Sicilian Mafia.  Read The Story

By Nick Pizza , Daily Mirror

He’s the boss of Italy’s biggest business – but he’s not your run-of-the-mill chief executive

Worth an estimated £2.5billion, Matteo Messina Denaro loves fast cars, designer watches and sharp suits. But 49-year-old Denaro is also a cold-blooded murderer whose ruthless streak has helped him rise to the very summit of the Italian Mafia.

Now known as the Don of Dons, he is believed to have personally executed at least 50 people and ordered the deaths of scores more. He has been on the run since 1993 and has chillingly boasted: “I filled a cemetery all by myself.”

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

Already well-known for its criminal involvement in drugs and violence, the feared Cosa Nostra has now worked its way into almost every corner of Italian life. And at the very summit is Denaro, who took over as the Godfather after the arrest of previous boss Bernardo Provenzano five years ago.  Read More Here