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22 May 2020 Goods for around 150 million euros have been confiscated from a figurehead of the bosses Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo. To carry out the first degree measure, the agents of the anti-crime division of the Palermo police headquarters who put seals on hundreds of properties in the province of Trapani and Palermo attributable to Andrea Impastato, 72 years of Cinisi, arrested in 2002 for mafia and believed a figurehead of the two bosses.

The wealth of the bosses
The confiscated assets include construction and quarrying companies, industrial complexes, warehouses, land, movable assets, current accounts, deposits and securities, and a tourist-residential complex in San Vito Lo Capo, in the Trapani area , consisting of numerous apartments and some villas.

The role of Andrea Impastato
The confiscation orders were ordered by the judges of the Palermo court. All the assets were attributable, directly or indirectly, to Andrea Impastato, son of Giacomo called "u sinnacheddu", a prominent mafia member of the Cinisi family and linked to the Badalamenti.

The story
A brother of Impastato, Luigi, 65 years old, was assassinated in Palermo on September 22, 1981, at the beginning of the mafia war which ended with the predominance of the Corleonesi. Andrea Impastato was arrested on October 2, 2002 for mafia association as part of the investigation into Pino Lipari, who ended up in handcuffs on January 24, 2002 and sentenced as financial consultant to Provenzano.

The examination of the computer equipment seized at Lipari's house showed that Impastato had been indicated by Provenzano as administrator of the bosses' wealth. Subsequent investigations have revealed a series of contacts, both personal and economic, of Impastato with numerous prominent personalities of Cosa Nostra, such as Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo.

Convictions and kidnappings
On 8 June 2005 Impastato was sentenced by the Palermo Court of Appeal to 4 of imprisonment, interdiction from public offices for 5 years and probation for one year: he had been found guilty of mafia association. On January 5, 2009, the seizure of property began, which today led to confiscation.