May 20, 2005 Friday
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SECTION: A SECTION; FLORIDA; Latin America & Caribbean, In Brief; Pg. A9
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HEADLINE: St. Maarten hotel owner arrested, linked to
Mafia
BODY:
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten -- Italian police have arrested
St. Maarten's most prominent hotel owner,
accusing him of laundering money for the Sicilian Mafia, Italian police said
Thursday.
Rosario Spadaro, 72, was arrested May 9 in Rome's Fiumicino airport, as soon as
he landed in Italy on a flight from Caracas, Venezuela, the Messina anti-Mafia
police said. Spadaro is the owner of the Maho Beach Resort in the Dutch half of
an island shared by the Netherlands and France.
CONTACT: Compiled from wire reports
LOAD-DATE: May 20, 2005