(ANSA) - Palermo, July 18 - Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigation Department (DIA) seized 360 million euros in real estate and financial assets from a Mafia-linked businessman on Friday in a small town near Palermo.
DIA director Arturo de Felice led agents to seize more than 360 million euros of assets including corporate holdings, private real estate and bank accounts from 47-year-old Stefano Parra, 47, in findings they said were "complex and articulated corporate plots, even through a third natural or legal party, by which Parra was able to control considerable corporate holdings and real estate".
Parra was previously arrested in May 2000 for Mafia-related crimes including the delivery of explosives used for illumination in caves where the bodies of Mafia victims were hidden.
360 mn euros seized from Mafia-linked businessman
'Articulated corporate plots', says Palermo's DIA