Another facilitator of the super-fledgling Matteo Messina Denaro ended up in prison. This is Gaspare Salvatore Gucciardi , accused of criminal association of a mafia type. He would have been part of the Cosa Nostra Trapani together with other people already convicted or subjected to other criminal proceedings including Matteo Messina Denaro, Vito Gondola and Michele Gucciardi .

The arrest stems from the outcome of the "Pionica" trial which ended last December 23 with the sentence, among others, of Gaspare Salvatore Gucciardi to ten years of imprisonment at the request of the Deputy Prosecutors of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Palermo.

The Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Trapani last night traced the man to his home in Vita, in the province of Trapani. According to the investigators, Gucciardi maintained a constant connection with other mafia "ensuring the transmission of confidential information within the criminal association, communicating with other associates the discovery of equipment intended for investigative activity".

From the investigations it emerged that Gaspare Salvatore Gucciardi had made his premises available, in Chinea, between Trapani and Salemi, to allow confidential meetings. He is also accused of fictitious registration of assets, which were then resold, in order to remove them from the patrimonial prevention measures and whose proceeds were made available to financially subsidize also the inaction of Matteo Messina Denaro.