Matteo Messina, boss of the Italian mafia, is arrested this Monday

The italian police arrested the mob boss Most Wanted in the country, who had been on the run for 30 years. Prosecutors say that Matteo Messina Denaro is a boss of the Mafia Cosa Nostra from Sicily.

Police stormed a private hospital in the Sicilian capital Palermo, where the 60-year-old man was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, on Monday morning to make the arrest.

Messina Denaro has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. He also faces life in prison for his role in bombings in Florence, Rome and Milan the following year, which killed 10 people.

Messina Denaro, who hails from the small southern town of Castelvetrano near Trapani, is accused by prosecutors of being solely or jointly responsible for several other murders in the 1990s.

In 1993, he helped organize the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to dissuade his father from testifying against the mob, prosecutors say. The boy was held captive for two years before he was strangled and his body dissolved in acid.

Police said in September last year that they could still issue warrants related to the way the mafia was run in the area around the western Sicilian city of Trapani, their regional stronghold, despite their long disappearance.

Monday’s arrest came 30 years and one day after convicted “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina was captured in a Palermo apartment after 23 years on the run. John Dickie, professor of Italian studies at University College London and an expert on the mafia, described the capture of Messina Denaro as “another sign of the decline of the Sicilian mafia.”

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