Sex pills, designer clothes found in mafia boss Messina Denaro's hideout - Reuters

PALERMO, Italy, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Perfumes, decorator apparel and enactment pills were recovered connected Tuesday successful an flat which investigators judge was the past hideout of Sicilian mafia brag Matteo Messina Denaro, judicial sources said, a time aft the apprehension of the fugitive.

Messina Denaro, 60, caught connected Monday astatine a backstage infirmary successful Palermo aft 30 years connected the run, is being held successful the cardinal Italian metropolis of L'Aquila, the Palermo authoritative said. He was transferred from Sicily connected the time of his arrest.

The flat is successful an a humble gathering adjacent the centre of Campobello di Mazara, a municipality successful the Western Sicilian state of Trapani, conscionable a fewer kilometres from Messina Denaro's location municipality of Castelvetrano.

Investigators recovered clothes, shoes, a well-stocked fridge and edifice receipts there, judicial sources said. They besides recovered potency pills.

"He had a regular life, helium went to the supermarket," said magistrate Paolo Guido, 1 the officials investigating Messina Denaro.

Neighbours described him arsenic a affable person.

"I unrecorded connected the archetypal level of the building, sometimes I person seen this person, greeted him and thing else. He responded successful a cordial manner," Rosario Cognata told Italian media.

TASTE FOR LUXURY

Messina Denaro was known for his sensation for luxury goods, including decorator apparel and costly sunglasses. Police said helium was wearing a ticker worthy 35,000 euros ($38,000) erstwhile helium was arrested.

Messina Denaro is believed to person lived successful the flat for the past year, judicial sources said, but constabulary are inactive searching for different places wherever helium mightiness person spent time.

Investigators judge Messina Denaro was driven connected Monday to Palermo's La Maddalena infirmary from Campobello di Mazara to beryllium treated for cancer. The municipality was location to his alleged adjutant Giovanni Luppino, who was arrested with him.

Police placed nether probe aesculapian doc Alfonso Tumbarello connected suspicion of aiding and abetting the mafia boss, judicial sources said, due to the fact that helium attended to Messina Denaro, who was undergoing anti-cancer attraction nether a mendacious name.

The sources said helium gave the sanction of Andrea Bonafede, who was the proprietor of the flat Messina Denaro was surviving in, and who is besides nether investigation.

Nicknamed "'U Siccu" (The Skinny One), Messina Denaro picked up 20 beingness situation presumption successful trials held successful absentia for his relation successful an array of mob murders, including the weaponry attacks that killed anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino successful 1992.

Despite his illness, prosecutors said Messina Denaro was fit capable to service clip successful situation wherever helium volition transportation connected with his crab treatment.($1 = 0.9232 euros)

Additional reporting by Angelo Amante and Alvise Armellini successful Rome Writing by Angelo Amante Editing by Keith Weir and Tomasz Janowski

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