ROME, Italy: Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, captured in January after three decades on the run, has died in hospital in central Italy, the ANSA news agency reported Monday.
Marking a symbolic end to centuries of existence of the Sicilian mafia, the ‘last godfather’, Matteo Messina Derano, died of long illness. The mafia, known for its long tentacles of power and cold-hearted brutality to enemies, has held immense away over Europe’s underworld as well as the political system, in the past. Derano was the last of the powerful Mafiosos, and had headed the crime organisation with a ruthless fist
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