Sep 29 2008
Anti-Mafia police seize assets worth 10 billion euros
Caserta — Anti-Mafia police on Monday seized assets worth around 10 billion euros, including property, belonging to the boss of a local Mafia clan allegedly linked to murders in the Province of Caserta, north of Naples.
Anti-Mafia and tax police seized apartments, businesses and property belonging to the fugitive boss, Giuseppe Setola, of the Casalesi clan of the Camorra or Naples Mafia.
Investigators claim Setola acquired the assets with money he gained from extortion and drug trafficking rackets he ran.
The assets include 20 apartments, a bar, a building cooperative and various plots of land earmarked for development, as well as agricultural land.
All the property had been put in the names of members of Setola’s family or under false names.
Setola is wanted by police in connection with the fatal drive-by shootings of six West African immigrants outside a tailor’s shop on 18 September and the murder of a gambling arcade owner in the nearby coastal town of Baia Verde, killing him outright after he refused to pay ‘protection money’.
The Italian government last week authorised the deployment of up to 500 soldiers to areas around Naples controlled the Neapolitan Mafia or Camorra, including the Province of Caserta.
Anti-Mafia police seize assets worth 10 billion euros - 29 Sept. 2008 - AKI - This story was found at: http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2517188578
Are all Assetts seized by the government or police auctioned off, if so where are the auctios held?
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