The "crate" has not yet been found.
Yet the fact that boss Matteo Messina Denaro had hundreds of thousands of euros in cash clearly emerges from the investigation by the Palermo prosecutor who, after arresting him, is trying to reconstruct his business and relationships.
In the pizzini found in the last hideout of the mafia boss in Campobello di Mazara and in the houses of his sister Rosalia, arrested last Friday, there is very much talk of money.
And the tenor of the conversations between the godfather and the sister suggests that the boss could count on a lot of cash.
"There are 85,000 left, and this is a problem, there are few, I must have a bigger deposit, otherwise I'll crash, that is, I'm not covered for the way I want. So now I'll explain how to recover these 40,000" , Messina Denaro wrote to Rosalia after having spent 40,000 euros of his fund probably for the purchase of the Campobello hideout.
He had 85 thousand euros left, too few, he said expressly.
And money is mentioned in many other notes from which it emerges that the family, who certainly did not use credit cards or debit cards, had a respectable cash register.
So far, the searches of the buildings of the two brothers and of all the arrested supporters have not led the investigators to the Messina Denaro treasury.
Yesterday Ros resumed combing the woman's Castelvetrano apartment in search of money.