MAFIA `SECOND-IN-COMMAND` ARRESTED IN ITALY

06.12.2009 [16:24]
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Baku, 6 December (AZERTAC). Two top Mafia figures, including the alleged second-in-command, have been arrested in Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has announced.

Gianni Nicchi, 28, was found in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily, the BBC reported.

Police said they had also arrested another top leader, Gaetano Fidanzati, 74, on a street in Milan.

A day earlier a witness in a Mafia case had linked Mr Berlusconi to the crime gang - a charge he denied, emphasising that he was fighting the criminals.

Announcing the arrests to journalists, Mr Berlusconi said on Saturday: "This is the best response to all the slander made by irresponsible people who, by doing this, are only slinging mud" at Italy.

An ex-Mafia member had told a Turin court that mob chief Giuseppe Graviano had said Mr Berlusconi and a senator had helped the Mafia.

The top of the Mafia wanted list remains the alleged boss - Matteo Messina Denaro.

MAFIA `SECOND-IN-COMMAND` ARRESTED IN ITALY

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