Heirs of suspected Cosa Nostra boss

(ANSA) - Rome, February 3 - Investigators on Wednesday seized assets worth over 100 million euros from the heirs of late Palermo construction businessman Francesco Pecora, who died in May 2011 and is considered to have been a high-ranking Cosa Nostra figure by the authorities.
    The National Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (DIA) said that Pecora was high up in the ranks of the Mob in palermo and was a co-defendant in various trials with Cosa Nostra heavyweights including Pippo Calò, Antonino Rotolo, Tommaso Spadaro and Giuseppe Ficarra. Pecora's daughter Caterina is the wife of Giovanni Motisi, who is on Italy's list of 30 most-wanted fugitives.