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Antonio Ciavarello, the son-in-law of the late mafia boss Totò Riina, has been arrested in Malta. Ciavarello was wanted by prosecutors in Brindisi, in Puglia, in southern Italy.
The arrest was made early Thursday morning, after several weeks of investigations, revealing that the individual resided in Mosta. The police of different units surrounded the apartment and made the arrest, the media in Malta announced.
The Italian authorities had issued an arrest warrant against the Italian citizen on January 24, 2022, to execute a prison sentence. The operation was carried out in cooperation with the Italian police.
In 2017, Ciavarello was arrested in Puglia to serve six months under house arrest for fraud. Ciavarello, who then lived in San Pancrazio with his wife, was found guilty of fraud committed in Termini Imerese in 2009.
Ciavarello will now be extradited to Sicily to serve his prison sentence. He was arrested a day after his 50th birthday, before judge Giannella Camilleri Busuttil.
Speaking through an interpreter, Ciavarello confirmed in court that he was the person identified in both warrants. Lawyer Thomas Barbara Sant, who was appointed to assist Ciavarello as a legal aid lawyer, told the court that his client had been aware of the rulings but did not know he had been sentenced to prison. The court asked Ciavarello if he agreed to return to Italy. He stated that he did. The court imposed the measure of detention until his handover to the Italian authorities.
Ciavarallo is married to the daughter of Toto Riina, the Corleone-born boss who launched a bloody all-out war on the Italian state in the early 1990s, died in 2017 aged 87. Riina was still considered the head of Cosa Nostra despite spending 24 years under the harsh regime of the 41 bis prison. Nicknamed 'The Beast' for his ferocity, he was serving life for a string of crimes, including the murders of anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino 25 years ago.
Riina was also involved in the infamous murders of carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, shortly after his appointment as prefect of Palermo, in 1982; and of Sicilian Governor Piersanti Mattarella, brother of Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in 1980.
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