ROME, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Italy seized assets worth over 23 million euros (about 28.6 million U.S. dollars) from organized crime, finance police announced Friday.
The assets, seized in what police named Operation Game Over, included several companies and businesses, real estate, land, and cars.
They belonged to members of the powerful Casalesi clan of the Naples-based Camorra mafia, of the Rome-based Guarnera clan, and of their Albanian enforcers.
The two clans worked together to dominate the slot machine market, using the Albanians as their "muscle" to extort, threaten, and rob their victims, police said.
The Casalesi forced crusading anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano into living under police protection after they sent him death threats.
In March last year, Italian anti-mafia prosecutors made international headlines when they arrested 69 suspects including bankers, mayors, and other prominent officials in a wide-ranging probe into the Casalesi clan.
