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Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily, ending a 30-year search. The Mafia boss who was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia in 2002 over numerous murders also oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking for the powerful Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate. (Picture: Italian mafia leader Matteo Messina Denaro (R), is seen after he was arrested by Italian security forces in Palermo, Italy on January 16, 2023. Credit; Getty Images.)