Finance police on Friday seized
assets worth 3.8 million euros from an alleged Puglia mafia ring
headed by bosses Orlando D'Oronzo - nicknamed Big Brother - and
Cosimo De Vitis.
Law enforcement seized 11 buildings, 14 lots of land, three
companies, 11 cars and motorcycles, and 500,000 euros in cash.
Prosecutors in October 2014 arrested 52 people in a raid
against the De Vitis-D'Oronzo clan, which they said had been
reorganizing itself in a bid to recover control of the drug and
extortion rackets in the Puglia port city of Taranto.
The De Vitis-D'Oronzo clan in the 1980s waged a bloody war
against a rival clan led by brothers Riccardo and Gianfranco
Modeo.
Puglia's mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita (United Holy Crown),
is the fourth and smallest of Italy's mafias.
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