Italian police in Palermo seized assets amounting to 500,000 euros from a top member of the mafia involved in the extortion of the film company “Magnolia fiction Ltd, reports LA spia
Acting on orders from the court of Palermo, police seized assets including two buildings belonging to Tommaso Tognetti, 49, a top mafia member in the Cosa Nostra clan Noce, active in Palermo.
Tognetti was busted back in 2012 for Mafia association,extortion, and other mafia crimes. According to authorities, he used his powerful position in the Cosa Nostra to extort traders and businessmen by use of arson.
And acting as the capo in charge for three mafia families, Tognetti called the shots in shakedown plot of the production of the “Secret Water”,a film about an Anti-mafia squad, but the extortion attempt was reported to the police.