Son of Italy's former top Mafia boss arrested on Brazilian warrant
Leonardo Badalamenti, the son of the top boss of the Italian
mafia in the 1970s, was arrested in Sicily on Wednesday on an international
warrant from Brazil, police said.
Badalamenti, 60, who had been a fugitive in Brazil since
2017, is wanted on charges of drug trafficking and bank fraud allegedly
committed while living there under an alias, a statement said.
He was arrested at his mother's home in the coastal city of
Castellammare del Golfo and taken to a prison in Palermo to await extradition
procedures.
His father, Gaetano Badalamenti, was the boss of the mafia
"commission" in the 1970s and infamous in organised crime history for
ordering the murder of anti-mafia radio journalist Peppino Impastato in 1978 in
the Sicilian city of Cinisi.
The elder Badalamenti took his family to Brazil in the 1980s
to avoid the bloody mafia wars launched by the Corleone clan led by Toto Riina
to assume total control of organised crime.
Gaetano Badalamenti was convicted of heroin trafficking in
the United States in 1987 in the so-called "Pizza Connection" case
and died in a Massachusetts prison in 2004 at the age of 80.
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