 Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Dinaro, who was caught in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died, AFP reported on September 25, citing Italian media that Messina Dinaro, 61, was suffering from cancer at the time of his arrest. As his condition worsened in recent weeks he was transferred to a hospital from the maximum security prison in central Italy, where he was initially held.He was convicted of numerous crimes, including for his role in planning the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsolino, crimes that shocked Italy and sparked a crackdown on the Sicilian mob but he was also held responsible for bombings in Rome, Florence and Milan in 1993 that killed 10 people as well as helping. Organized the kidnapping of Giuseppe di Matteo, 12, to try to dissuade the boy's father from giving evidence against the mafia. The boy was held for two years and then murdered. Dubbed by the Italian press as the last godfather, Messina Dinaro is not believed to have given any information to the police after he was seized outside a private health clinic in the Sicilian capital Palermo on January 16. It was a fundamental battle to win and it is a tough blow. Castelvetrana in Nostra, non di cosa nostra.