Members of the national
anti-Mafia commission on Wednesday questioned AISE foreign
intelligence agency chief Alberto Manenti on the whereabouts of
fugitive Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
Manenti is to answer at the next commission hearing,
sources close to the closed-door hearing said.
Messina Denaro, 52, is one of the world's 10 most wanted
men, according to Interpol.
Investigators have been closing the net around Messina
Denaro with a wave of arrests and massive asset seizures since
an updated identikit in 2011 gave new impetus to the search.
In December 2013, police said that they have never been so
close to capturing the elusive crime boss.
The comments came as close relatives of Messina Denaro were
among 30 people arrested earlier that month, and some five
million euros' worth of assets belonging to his family were
seized.
The December operation came after police in April 2013
confiscated assets worth over 1.3 billion euros belonging to
Vito Nicastri, a Sicilian wind-farm and solar-power magnate
linked to Messina Denaro, in the biggest-ever assets seizure in
the country's history.
E' quanto si è appreso al termine della seduta, che è stata
secretata. In particolare è stato chiesto dove potrebbe trovarsi
Messina Denaro e se si suppone sia lontano dalla Sicilia, in un
Paese estero. A queste domande Manenti dovrebbe rispondere in
una prossima audizione davanti alla Commissione che dovrebbe
svolgersi nel giro di poche settimane.
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