Italy said on Thursday it was seizing assets worth more than 200 million euros ($232 million) belonging to late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro in an operation involving a string of offshore territories.
Italy said Thursday it was seizing more than 200 million euros ($232 million) in assets belonging to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro derived from drug trafficking and reinvested in Europe and beyond.
The "vast fortune" of the ruthless Cosa Nostra boss -- a legendary figure finally captured in 2023 in Palermo after three decades on the run -- had been amassed since the 1980s, Italy's financial police said in a statement.
Messina Denaro, head of Sicily's Castelvetrano clan who had six life sentences to his name, died in prison a few months after his arrest at age 61.
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