Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested after 30 years on the run in Sicily

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Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, who was so elusive that he was nicknamed ‘The Ghost’, has been captured after 30 years on the run.

Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was arrested by an elite squad of police in Sicily, reportedly in a private clinic in Palermo where he had gone to receive treatment for an undisclosed illness.

He had been in the clinic for a year, undergoing periodic treatment for colon cancer under a false name, and did not resist arrest, ANSA news agency said.

Believed to be the “boss of bosses” of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia, he was immediately whisked away and taken to a secret location.

He had been on the run since 1993 but was still believed to be in active command of Cosa Nostra, issuing orders to his lieutenants from secret locations across Sicily.

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