The prosecutors of the Palermo DDA Piero Padova and Gianluca de Leo have asked for Matteo Messina Denaro's sister, Rosalia, to be sentenced to 20 years in prison, accused of aggravated mafia association and receiving stolen goods. The woman has been in prison since March last year. According to the investigators, he helped his brother to escape capture for years and managed on his behalf the "cash" of the mafia "family" and the transmission network of the 'pizzini', thus allowing the mafia boss to maintain relations with his men during his long absence.
Rosalia Messina Denaro is the eldest of Messina Denaro's four sisters, the mother of Lorenza Guttadauro, a lawyer who, since the day of her arrest, has defended the mafia boss, and the wife of Filippo Guttadauro who has served 14 years for mafia association and is still in prison to the so-called 'white life sentence'. The woman's second son, Francesco, the Trapani godfather's favorite nephew, is serving a 16-year sentence for mafia association. Another sister of the former wanted man, Patrizia, is also in prison for the mafia. At Rosalia's house in December 2022, in the leg of a chair, the ROS carabinieri found a pizzino, a sort of medical record of the mafia boss which led them to the discovery of the pathology from which the then fugitive suffered and then to his arrest occurred on January 16, 2023 in front of the La Maddalena clinic in Palermo.
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