Police on Thursday seized assets
worth over 100 million euros from a Campania businessman alleged
to be in collusion with the local Camorra mafia's powerful
Casalesi clan.
Alfonso Letizia, 67, is thought to head a group of
cement-making companies dominating the local market allegedly
with backup from the Casalesi clan.
Investigators said the entrepreneur, who comes from the
Casalesi's' home town of Casal di Principe, allowed the clan to
use his concrete mixing plants in exchange for a guaranteed
monopoly of the local market.
Italian police in April seized assets worth 13 million
euros linked to the Casalesi clan that were formally owned by
the former head of the municipal engineering and zoning office
in Casal di Principe.
The Casalesis' criminal empire was exposed in writer and
journalist Roberto Saviano's 2006 book Gomorrah: Italy's Other
Mafia, later made into a prizewinning film.
Saviano is under round-the-clock police protection after
death threats from jailed Casalesi bosses including Francesco
'Sandokan' Schiavone.
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