Another blow to the ‘cosa nostra’.

It’s a never-ending battle between Italian law enforcement and the organized crime families controlling parts of the country, notably in the Mediterranean island of Sicily.

Today it arises that Italian authorities have seized over 200 million euros ($232 million) in assets linked to the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s drug trafficking network.

It’s what anti-mafia prosecutors described as a hit to the Sicilian Mafia’s financial power.

NEW: Italy seizes more than €200 million in assets tied to the network of late Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

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The Sicilian Mafia’s money had no borders.

More than €200M in assets linked to drug trafficking boss Matteo Messina Denaro have been seized — 3 years after his arrest ended 30 years on the run.pic.twitter.com/gXWpSGD8VD

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Associated Press reported:

“The seizures included more than 12 kilograms (26 pounds) in gold bars, millions in cash, premium watches and some 20 luxury properties, investigators told a news conference.

Messina Denaro died in a prison hospital some nine months after he was arrested in January 2023, ending three decades as a fugitive. He had been tried in absentia and convicted in dozens of murders, including helping to mastermind a pair of 1992 bombings that killed top anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.”

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“As part of the investigation into a decades-long drug-trafficking money trail linked, authorities arrested three people and ordered the seizure of assets, companies and financial holdings worth more than 200 million euros.

More than 150 Italian financial police officers carried out searches in Italy and abroad, including in Andorra, Gibraltar, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Lebanon, Monaco and Spain.”

Italy says it is 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.
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— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 28, 2026

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