Matteo Messina Money, the assets, the hideout and the affairs of the boss

Matthew Messina Money he was the boss of the massacres, but also of the business. The watch, a 35,000 euro Franck Muller, which he was wearing at the time of his arrest, the designer clothes and the so-called refined furnishings found in what would have been his last refuge in Campobello of Mazarain the Trapani area, are only a minimal demonstration of the wealth accumulated by the boss in thirty years on the run, a boss who has always loved money and luxury.

The calculations are made starting from what has been seized and confiscated, over the years, from the figurehead of Matteo Messina Denaro. The estimate, probably underestimated, is between four and five billion euros. They range from tourist villages to wind farms, obviously immobile, but also the turnover of large-scale commercial distribution and the traffic of works of art.

The last house, defined by the investigators as a permanent home, is in a two-story yellow building in a semi-central area of ​​the municipality of Trapani. The search went on for hours in the building looking not so much for the boss’s luxury items, but for anything that could be useful for the investigation into the Cosa Nostra starting from the so-called “Archive of Riina”papers and documents never found in the boss’s Palermo hideout, not searched immediately after his arrest thirty years ago.

Much is known about Matteo Messina Denaro’s affairs thanks to the operations carried out over the years with those who helped him. To Giuseppe Grigoli, owner of a network of supermarkets of the Despar large-scale distribution, assets of 700 million euros were seized. It had twelve companies, 220 buildings and 133 parcels of land. Known to the investigators is the interest in the development of thewind energy: the Trapani entrepreneur Vito Nicastri, linked to the boss, has seen his assets of one and a half billion euros seized. Then there is all the management of the former Valtur, the colossus of the resorts. In 2018, the Trapani court seized assets worth €1.5 billion, as well as properties and companies. This is just to mention the major seizures, but there are dozens of other operations, in addition to the trafficking of works of art.

There is now to discover what is not known about Messina Denaro’s affairs that he has always tried to to penetrate the mafia in the legal economic and social fabric. Many proceeds could be in accounts abroad, including those of what was considered the latest business: online gaming, a sector which, according to the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, lends itself to money laundering and was controlled through infiltrators and extortion .

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