Matteo Messina Denaro Biography, Age, Height, Daughter, Wife, Children, Net Worth

Matteo Messina Denaro Biography, Age, Height, Daughter, Wife, Children, Net Worth. A Sicilian Mafia leader by the name of Diabolik is Matteo Messina Denaro. After the arrests of Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007 and Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006, he was regarded as one of the new mob bosses in Sicily.

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Matteo Messina Denaro Biography

Matteo Messina Denaro (born 26 April 1962), also known as Diabolik is a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano. He was considered to be one of the new leaders of the Sicilian mob after the arrests of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006 and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007. The son of a Mafia boss, Denaro became known nationally on 12 April 2001 when the magazine L’Espresso put him on the cover with the headline: Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia (“Here is the new Mafia boss”).

Matteo Messina Denaro Early Life

Matteo Messina Denaro was born in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. His father, Francesco Messina Denaro, known as Don Ciccio, was the capo mandamento of Castelvetrano. Matteo learned to use a gun at 14. “I filled a cemetery all by myself,” he once bragged. He made a reputation by murdering rival boss Vincenzo Milazzo from Alcamo and strangling Milazzo’s three-months pregnant girlfriend.

His father started as a campiere (armed guard) of the D’Alì family, wealthy landowners who were among the founders of the Banco Sicula. He became the fattore (overseer of an estate) of the D’Alì land holdings. They handed over a significant estate in the area Zangara (Castelvetrano) to Matteo Messina Denaro. However, the real new owner turned out to be Salvatore Riina, with whom Messina Denaro was allied.

Antonio D’Alì Sr. had to resign from the board of the Banco Sicula in 1983 because he appeared on the list of the secret freemason lodge Propaganda Due (P2) of Licio Gelli. His son Antonio D’Alì Jr. became a senator for Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party in 1996, and in April 2001 under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for fighting organised crime. His cousin Giacomo D’Alì is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana (Comit) in Milan, which acquired the Banca Sicula in 1991. Matteo’s brother Salvatore Messina Denaro, arrested in November 1998, worked at the Banca Sicula and continued to work for Comit.

Messina Denaro is often portrayed as a ruthless playboy mafioso and womaniser, driving an expensive Porsche sports car and wearing a Rolex Daytona watch, Ray Ban sunglasses and fancy clothes from Giorgio Armani and Versace. He is an ardent player of computer games, and is said to be the father of an extramarital child, which is unusual in the conservative culture of the Mafia. Messina Denaro has a reputation for fast living and allegedly killed a Sicilian hotel owner who accused him of taking young girls to bed. As such, he is remarkably different from traditional Mafia bosses like Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano who claim to adhere to conservative family values.

Matteo Messina Denaro Career

After the natural death of his father in November 1998, Matteo became capo mandamento of the area including Castelvetrano and the neighbouring cities, while Vincenzo Virga ruled in the city of Trapani and its surroundings. After the arrest of Virga in 2001, Messina Denaro took over the leadership of the Mafia in the province of Trapani. He is said to command some 900 men and apparently reorganised the 20 Mafia families in Trapani into one single mandamento separated from the rest of Cosa Nostra. The Trapani Mafia is considered the zoccolo duro (solid pedestal) of Cosa Nostra and the most powerful except for the families in Palermo.

Messina Denaro gets his money through an extensive extortion racket forcing businesses to pay a pizzo (protection money) and skimming off public construction contracts (the family owns substantial sand quarries). He is also active in the international drug trade, allegedly with the Cuntrera-Caruana clan, attracting attention of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He also makes money through legitimate business, he has stakes in a Sicilian supermarket chain and owns vast olive groves. He was involved in olive oil production in a corrupt business, which used cheap African labour.

According to the Direzione distrettuale antimafia (DDA) of Palermo he has interests in Venezuela and contacts with Colombian drug trafficking cartels as well as the ‘Ndrangheta. His illicit networks extend to Belgium and Germany.

Messina Denaro has strong links with Mafia families in Palermo, in particular in Brancaccio, territory of the Graviano Family. Filippo Guttadauro the brother of the Giuseppe Guttadauro – the regent of the Brancaccio Mafia while Giuseppe Graviano and Filippo Graviano are in jail – is the brother-in-law of Messina Denaro. They are involved in cocaine trafficking in agreement with ‘Ndrangheta clans from Platì, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica and Siderno, as well as the Mafia family of Mariano Agate.

Matteo Massina Denaro Arrest

According to prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia, Matteo was being treated at a private medical facility in Palermo when he was taken into custody. For 30 years, Matteo has been sought after. Sicilli is where he was detained.

Matteo Messina Denaro Age

How old is Matteo Messina Denaro? Matteo Messina Denaro is 60 years old. Matteo Messina was born on April 26, 1962 in Castelvetrano, Italy.

Matteo Messina Denaro Height

How tall is Matteo Messina Denaro? Matteo Messina Denaro height is not known.

Matteo Messina Denaro Parents

Who are the parents of Matteo Messina Denaro? Matteo Messina Denaro was born to Lorenza Messina Denaro and Francesco Messina Denaro.

Matteo Messina Denaro Wife

Is Matteo Messina Denaro married? We’ve looked all over the internet in vain for information about his wife. But according to the records, he does have a child. Lorenza Alagna is the name of his child.

Matteo Messina Denaro siblings

Matteo has many siblings. Some of them are Patrizia Messina Denaro, Salvatore Messina Denaro, and others.

Matteo Messina Denaro Children

According to records, Matteo Massina’s daughter is Lorenza Alagna. On the other hand, not much is known about him. After being a wanted man for more than 30 years, Matteo was finally apprehended.

Matteo Messina Denaro Net Worth

Matteo Messina Denaro has an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion.