Italian police on Friday
arrested in Puglia the son-in-law of late Cosa Nostra boss of
bosses Totò Riina who must serve six months under house arrest
for fraud.
Antonino Ciavarello, 44, from Palermo, is the husband of one
of Riina's two daughters.
The man, who lives at San Pancrazio with his wife, was found
guilty of a scam perpetrated at Termini Imerese in 2009,
judicial sources said.
Earlier this week a Padua detention review court revoked the
parole of Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, son of Toto' Riina, and
sentenced him to a year in a work 'colony' for contacts with
drug pushers that breached the terms of his parole.
Prosecutors had asked for a term of three years for Riina
junior, one of the Mafia boss's four children.
Toto' Riina, the bloody Corleone-born boss who launched an
all-out war on the Italian State in the early 1990s, died
earlier this month aged 87.
Riina was buried on Wednesday November 22 in the cemetery of
Corleone, near Palermo.
The mobster died the previous Friday, November 17, a day
after he turned 87, in a section for inmates of Parma hospital.
The Italian church had ruled out a public funeral for Riina,
pointing out that the pope has excommunicated mafiosi.
It was late pope John Paul II who first issued the anathema
against unrepentant mafiosi receiving the sacraments 24 years
ago.
A private prayer session was held in the cemetery, where some
of Riina's Corleonesi allies like Bernardo Provenzano, as well
as several of his victims, are buried.
Riina was still considered head of Cosa Nostra despite
spending 24 years under the 41 bis tough jail regime.
He had been in a coma since the second of two recent
operations and had been badly ill for a long time.
Nicknamed The Beast for his ferocity, he was serving life for
a slew of crimes including the assassinations of anti-Mafia
magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino 25 years ago.
Other infamous assassinations were those of Carabinieri
General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, who had recently been
appointed prefect of Palermo, in 1982; and of Sicilian Governor
Piersanti Mattarella, the brother of Italian President Sergio
Mattarella, in 1980.
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