JAKARTA - Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was detained on Wednesday in a high-security prison in central Italy, after a fugitive for thirty years, subject to special restrictions imposed on the country's most dangerous prisoners.
"I have no criminal records," said Messina Denaro, who was arrested on Monday, to a prison guard when he was put in a Costarelle Prison near the town of L'Oquila, Italian media reported.
Messina Denaro has been sentenced in absence to life sentences for a series of crimes, including his role in the killings of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and 1992 Paolo Borsellino, the assassination of Italai, sparked a crackdown on the Sicily mafia group, Cosa Nostra.
He will be one of about 160 prisoners in Costarelle, Italy's largest maximum security prison open in the 1990s.
Prior to Messina Denaro, a number of mafias had also been thrown into the prison, including Raffaele Cutolo and Leoluca Bagarella.
Messina Denaro, who has expensive clothing and car tastes, will comply with the rules of "41 buses", a strict isolation designed to prevent suspects from running criminal groups from being behind bars.
Arrested at a clinic while undergoing cancer-related treatment, Messina Denaro's treatment is expected to resume at a hospital in L'Aquila, a small town in the Abruzzo Mountains region.
He will most likely be flown back to Sicily, when asked to appear in court.
It is known, prosecutors said Messina Denaro was one of the leading figures in Cosa Nostra, but preferred to stay in his own territory and not the "boss of the boss" like the late Salvatore "Toto" Riina.
Meanwhile, Riina was arrested in 1993 after more than two decades on the run, died in prison in the northern city of Parma in 2017.
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