Asset Seizure Targets Palermo Family For Suspected Ties To Mafia Bosses

Italian authorities have seized assets worth 51 million euros ($70 million) from Mario Niceta and some other family members for their suspected ties to imprisoned bosses from the Brancaccio clan of Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia as reported by ANSA:  “prosecutors with Palermo’s anti-Mafia investigative unit (DDA) believe their company, which is reportedly one of Sicily’s leading clothing and jewellery retailers, was linked since the 1980s to two Mafia dons, brothers Giuseppe and Filippo Guttadauro, with joint enterprises in the areas of Palermo and Trapani.”  Filippo Guttadauro is the brother-in-law of fugitive “boss of bosses” Matteo Messina Denaro.