Police in Italy on Friday seized assets worth 28 million euros from a builder with alleged ties to Calabrian mafia clans including four companies and 27 items of real estate.
The operation was carried out by the Italian tax police's anti-mafia unit in the Calabrian provinces of Vibo Valentia, Reggio Calabria and in Rome on the orders of prosectors in Reggio Calabria.
Also impounded from Calabrian building entrepreneur Angelo Restuccia were financial instruments and insurance policies, police said.
Restuccia is accused of links to the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta's Piromalli clan, whose stronghold is the transshipment port of Gioia Tauro, and from the Mancuso clan based in the coastal town of Limbadi, according to investigators.
Restuccia had links to the local mafia dating back over four decades that had enabled him to grow rich in return for favouring its interests, investigators said.