Italian police have arrested a man they say is the alleged money man behind the most powerful organized crime clan in Palermo, Sicily.
Giuseppe Liga, 60, was arrested Monday after being named by informants as having taken over the Lo Piccolo family after alleged heads of the family Salvatore Lo Piccolo and brother Sandro were arrested in 2007, ANSA reported.
Liga is charged with extortion, mafia conspiracy and setting up front companies. He was the alleged money man who handled revenue from "all the rackets" for the San Lorenzo-based clan, police said.
"What we are seeing is the 'financialization' of the Mafia," said prosecutor Antonio Ingroia. "Ever more often we have found that command has been handed to figures who were once financial 'consultants' of bosses."
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