Cops seize 100 mln from alleged mobster

(ANSA) - Naples, July 10 - 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.