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Cosa Nostra’s ‘Last Godfather,’ Matteo Messina Denaro, Arrested in Sicily
Since then, many of its leaders have died or have been incarcerated in maximum security prisons, where they have little contact with the outside world. Meanwhile, the Sicilian clans have lost ground to other criminal groups, notably the Calabrian Ndrangheta, which controls much of the international drug trade.Betting Operations
In 2018, Italian police busted a Cosa Nostra-linked illegal gambling operation that included an online betting company owned by Italy’s so-called “King of Betting,”
The operation included a network of over 700 illegal betting shops throughout Italy. The Palermo-based operation generated around €1 million in profits per month, with “between €300,000 and €800,000” of that sum distributed among various Mafia families, according to prosecutors.
Messina Denaro was the last godfather, he represented all the secrets of Cosa Nostra,” Professor Anna Sergi, an expert in organized crime at England s Essex University, told Reuters Monday. “It is the end of a myth, and the organization will have to cope with this.
If Cosa Nostra wants to rebuild the leadership it had in the past it needs directives. But there are no big chiefs anymore, she added.
