FORMER HIGH-RANKING MAFIA HUNTER SENTENCED FOR MAFIA MEMBERSHIP
Bruno Contrada, a former high-ranking Italian Intelligence officer, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Palermo for membership of the mafia. The sentence came after a trial that lasted two years. The Court found it proven that the 67 year old defendant had supported the Cosa Nostra and enabled the escape of leading mafia bosses.
Before his arrest in 1992, Contrada was considered to be one of Italy's foremost mafia hunters. On his part, Contrada has constantly pleaded innocence and claimed that he was the victim of a plot.
Source: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 9.4.96.