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Global News Podcast

Italy's most-wanted mafia boss arrested in Sicily

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Matteo Messina Denaro is captured after 30 years on the run. More than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest. Also: a British Police officer admits to multiple rapes and sexual assaults over the course of almost two decades, and conservation organisations are seeking volunteers to become 'walrus detectives'.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:03.9

I'm Nick Meils and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 16th of January, these are our main

0:09.3

stories.

0:10.3

After a 30-year man hunt, Italy's most wanted mafia boss has finally been arrested in

0:15.9

Sicily.

0:17.1

Belarus and Russia have begun joint Air Force drills.

0:20.4

Is it a side of a new escalation of the conflict in Ukraine?

0:24.9

A new report says extreme wealth and extreme poverty have increased simultaneously for the

0:30.5

first time in 25 years.

0:34.9

Also in this podcast, reaction after a British police officer admits to multiple rapes

0:40.1

and sexual assaults over the course of almost two decades.

0:43.5

It's devastating for the victims.

0:45.6

It is devastating to the trust that we are working so hard to earn, policing has definitely

0:52.1

taken a step back.

0:54.1

All that and conservation organisations say they're seeking volunteers to become walrus

0:59.0

detectives.

1:03.1

We start in Italy where one of the countries most wanted mafia bosses, Mateo Messina

1:07.7

Denaro has been arrested.

1:09.8

He's thought to be the boss of the Sicilian mafia known as the Causa Nostra.

1:14.7

He was detained by dozens of police as he was having a coffee at a private clinic in the

1:19.5

city of Pilemo.

1:21.2

Italy's Prime Minister, Georgie Meloni, thanked the

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