A new blow to the network of accomplices that covered the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro. The Carabinieri of the Ros have arrested Antonino Luppino and Vincenzo Luppino, sons of the entrepreneur from Campobello di Mazara Giovanni Luppino, the man who served as the mafia boss's driver and who was arrested with him on January 16 a year ago. They are accused of aiding and abetting and procuring non-compliance with punishment. The investigation was coordinated by the prosecutor of Palermo Maurizio de Lucia, the deputy Paolo Guido and the public prosecutors Gianluca De Leo and Piero Padova.
Messina Denaro, new arrests
The Luppino, according to the accusation, would have provided Messina Denaro with "precious help" to move and travel in the territory where the boss has lived in recent periods. The two brothers, from 2018 to 2022, lived a few meters from the godfather's last hideout in Campobello di Mazara, sharing crucial information with their father for the management of the mafia boss's fugitive status. Antonino Luppino was given the number of one of the cell phones used by the boss, Vincenzo Luppino would have gone to the La Maddalena clinic, where the wanted man was being treated for cancer, when he was operated on, to take care of his needs.
And again Antonino Luppino, together with his father, would have escorted Messina Denaro, after being discharged from the nursing home, on May 11, to Campobello and together with his brother would have taken care of the repairs of the car, a Giulietta, with which the mafia boss moved. The three Luppino, then, would have followed the renovation works of the fugitive's hideout and the moving of the boss's furniture to the last hiding place. Vincenzo would have kept the old kitchen that Messina Denaro had decided not to take to the house where he had moved. Finally, Vincenzo would have lent his van to his father to escort the fugitive as he drove through Castelvetrano to pass in front of his family's homes.
UNDER THE HOUSE
On December 29, 2022, a few days before his arrest, Matteo Messina Denaro drove under the house of his ex-girlfriend, mother of his daughter, and his sisters Bice and Giovanna, in Castelevetrano. He was followed and escorted by Vincenzo Luppino's van, who was arrested today. At the wheel was his father Giovanni, an entrepreneur arrested on the day of the godfather's capture and his faithful driver. The wanted boss therefore passed under his family's house to revisit the places dear to him and in the hope, the investigators suspect, of being able to see his relatives even from afar.
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