The oncologist who treated notorious mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has spoken for the first time about the ethical dilemma he faced while trying to save the life of a man who claimed to have "filled a cemetery" himself.

Matteo Messina Denaro, a notorious former leader of the Cosa Nostra responsible for massacres and assassinations, has died in prison at the age of 87 after three decades of incarceration.

Italian anti-mafia and financial police have announced the seizure of over 200 million euros linked to Matteo Messina Denaro, the deceased Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss, who had built a vast financial empire.

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 18 - A probe has been opened into the suicide of a mafioso being held in a Turin jail who had just started cooperating with police. Bernardo Pace, 62, a Cosa Nostra member who acted under late superboss Matteo Messina Denaro, was serving 14 years and four months in the Milanese Hydra case of collaboration between the Sicilian Mafia, the Naples Camorra and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta in the north of Italy. Pace agreed to turn state's evidence a few weeks ago and had started wo...

The 'treasure trove' of the last Sicilian mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, who was arrested in 2023 and later died, is being revealed, detailing how and where he hid an estimated 200 million euros.

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 18 - A probe has been opened into the suicide of a mafioso being held in a Turin jail who had just started cooperating with police. Bernardo Pace, 62, a Cosa Nostra member who acted under late superboss Matteo Messina Denaro, was serving 14 years and four months in the Milanese Hydra case of collaboration between the Sicilian Mafia, the Naples Camorra and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta in the north of Italy. Pace agreed to turn state's evidence a few weeks ago and had started wo...