Italy's anti-mafia directorate on Friday impounded assets worth 10 million euros from alleged Sicilian mafia member and businessman Giuseppe Montalbano including companies, real estate and building equipment.
The expropriation of the assets followed a probe by anti-mafia investigators in Trapani that uncovered "suspect money flows" involving Montalbano's cement-making firm Tre Noci, investigators asid.
Forty-seven-year-old Montalbano from the town of Alcamo in the province of Trapani, has done jail-time for abetting several mafia fugitives and for extortion.
The Sicilian mafia was Italy's most powerful organised crime syndicate in the 1980s and 1990s, but has seen its power diminish after years of probes and mass arrests.
