Anti-mafia police make largest asset seizure

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Series Details 15.9.10
Publication Date 15/09/2010
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Italian anti-mafia police have made their largest seizure of assets as part of an investigation into windfarm contracts in Sicily. Officers confiscated in September 2010 property and accounts valued at €1.5bn belonging to a businessman suspected of having links with the mafia.

In La Stampa's separate article it says that according to a recently released report on the use of billions in EU subsidies, Sicily has spent every last cent of it – not on stopping the island’s development gap, but on pork-barrelling patronage.

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La Stampa, 8.10.10: Sicily, gobbler of EU funds (PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/356171-sicily-gobbler-eu-funds
ESO: Background information: Mafia link to Sicily wind farms probed http://www.europeansources.info/record/mafia-link-to-sicily-wind-farms-probed/

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