Police seize 3.8 mn in Mob assets

(ANSA) - Taranto, June 12 - 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.