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Italian authorities have seized more than $232m in assets linked to the late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, targeting a network built on decades of drug trafficking and financial laundering. The operation announced on Thursday and led by Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, traced the funds across Europe and offshore jurisdictions, dismantling what officials described as a vast criminal fortune accumulated since the 1980s.

Benedetto Nitto Santapaola, a Sicilian mafia boss and one of the most dangerous figures in Italian criminal history, has died aged 87. Santapaola, who was widely believed to have been the architect of a campaign of bloodshed that scarred Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, died on Monday in a Milan prison where he was serving multiple life sentences.