Italian police in Sicily arrested the man whose identity was used by a convicted Mafia boss who became Italy's No. 1 fugitive during 30 years on the run, authorities said.
Thanks to Bonafede’s allowing Messina Denaro to use his identity, the fugitive was “able to move on the territory , eluding law enforcement, as well as to access National Health Care without revealing his real identity,″ according to the accusations in the warrant.
Messina Denaro had been convicted in absentia while he was on the lam of several of the most heinous Mafia crimes and given multiple life sentences. He was convicted of being one of the masterminds of the 1992 bombings — one of attacks killed Italy’s top anti-Mafia magistrate, Giovanni Falcone, along a highway outside Palermo and the other killed a fellow magistrate, Paolo Borsellino two months later — that shocked Italy.
A few days after the Jan. 16 arrest of the fugitive, police found in a private parking lot in Campobello di Mazara a black Alfa Romeo Giulietta sedan they said Messina Denaro used to drive himself around, with Bonafede’s identification documents, the arrest warrant for Bonafede said.
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