Mafia: 14 years and 4 months requested for Giovanni Luppino, Matteo Messina Denaro's driver
Luppino is responsible for mafia association and has been in prison since 16 January 2023, when he was arrested with Messina Denaro.
An agricultural entrepreneur from Campobello di Mazara (Trapani), the town where the mafia boss of Castelvetrano (Trapani) spent the last part of his thirty-year hiding, Luppino had told - in the immediate facts - a completely unlikely story, that of having accompanied Messina Denaro out of a spirit of humanity, after having learned, on the same morning as the arrest of the two, that he was a cancer patient who needed a ride to Palermo. The DDA accuses Luppino of fifty trips from Campobello to Palermo with Messina Denaro. And he accuses him of being part of the mafia organization also because he allegedly asked for protection money on behalf of the mafia clan led by the now deceased mafia boss.