Police on Friday in Sicily impounded 18 million euros of assets from jailed mafia boss Ciro Fisicaro, who had continued to run his empire over the past two decades from prison, according to investigators.
Friday's operation in and around the eastern port city of Catania seized estate agents, transport firms, supermarkets and hypermarkets, 10 buildings including apartments, warehouses, offices and garages, 57 vehicles, bank accounts and other financial assets, police said.
Fiscaro, 52, was sentenced to life in prison for three murders committed in 1992 by the Nardo clan, of which he is considered to be a top boss.
While in prison, he conducted Nardo clan business through a Sicilian citrus fruit producer, Giuseppe Mauceri, registering clan assets in the businessman's name, Catania based daily La Sicilia reported, citing court documents.
A court in the southeastern Sicilian port city of Syracuse ordered Friday's asset seizures at the request of anti-mafia prosecutors in Catania.
The Nardo clan's power base is the province of Syracuse, where it does business with the Catania-based Santapaola crime family.
