Andrea Bonafede, the man who lent Matteo Messina Denaro his identity while he was a fugitive, has told investigators that he bought the apartment that the Sicilian Mafia boss was using as a hideout with the mobster's money.
The ownership of the small flat in Campobello di Mazara, in Messina Denaro's home province of Trapani, was in the name of Bonafede.
The 60-year-old mobster was arrested on Monday after 30 years on the run at a private clinic in Palermo where he had been undergoing treatment for cancer.
"I have known him since I was a kid," Bonafede told investigators, according to sources.
"I bought the house where he lived with his money".
The boss has been taken to a maximum-security jail in the central city of L'Aquila, where he will continue to do chemotherapy.
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