By Angelo Amante ROME, May 28 (Reuters) - Italy's finance police on Thursday said they had seized assets and companies worth more than €200 million ($232 million) in an investigation into the laundering of drug trafficking proceeds linked to late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

A RUTHLESS Italian mafia kingpin’s vast $232million criminal empire derived from drug trafficking and parasitic exploitation has been seized. Late mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro was captured

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic where he was ...

Assets were being seized in Andorra, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland, as well as Italy, police said. View on euronews

Italian authorities have caught mob bosses being wiretapped in the country complaining about a lack of high quality recruits and reminiscing about the old days and "The Godfather."