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Cosa Nostra treasure found on Costa del Sol as police seize 200 million euro mafia fortuneLuxury villas in Marbella and Puerto Banus are raided in a joint Spanish and Italian police operation dismantling the secret financial network of the late Sicilian godfather Matteo Messina Denaro.
Añádenos en Google Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in 2023 in Palermo. (AFP)Rome
29/05/2026 a las 09:43h.Luxury villas on the Costa del Sol have been seized in a major international anti-mafia operation that uncovered a €200 million secret fortune belonging ... to a deceased Sicilian gang leader.
Spain’s National Police collaborated with Italy's Guardia di Finanza to raid properties across Malaga, Marbella, Benahavís and Puerto Banús.
The multi-million euro assets belonged to the criminal network of Matteo Messina Denaro, the last historical "capo" of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia, who died of cancer in prison in September 2023.
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