MESSINA - Goods for over 200 million euro were seized by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department to a contractor of Messina, Mario Joseph Scinardo, 43. This is one of the largest seizures of assets made in investigations of the Mafia. Scinardo, a native of Capizzi, a village in the province of Messina, is accused of Mafia association and be a part of the clan of Rampulla of Mistretta. The investigation was coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Messina and Catania. Give people more than 100 centers in Catania and Messina are engaged in the operation. The seized assets is made up of numerous companies and individual entrepreneurs with multi-millionaire business volumes, over 250 properties, including plots, villas and commercial premises, but also on farms and wineries, from concrete plants and about 90 means of trucks, excavators, farm vehicles and cars with large displacements. The seizure of assets worth 200 million euro and the judges of the court in Catania, who accepted the request made by the Directorate Anti-Mafia Investigation Messina. The investigation was initially coordinated by the DDA in Messina, and was sent for expertise to the Etna. According to investigators, the contractor which are due to seizures while Scinardo Mario Joseph, 43, would be very close to the mafia family of Rampulla Mistretta (Messina), so that in some businesses were also included as a hidden members. Scinardo is accused of mafia association, and investigators believe that on some occasions would provide its properties to provide shelter to fugitive bosses or as a meeting of mafia bosses. The seizure refers to goods not only made payable to Mario Joseph Scinardo, but also his wife Letizia Nellina Deni, and his brother Salvatore Scinardo.SCINARDO WAS THE ONLY DOCUMENT DIADurante press conference in Catania, on the seizure of assets for more than 200 million € to 'entrepreneur Scinardo Mario Joseph, 43, has been reported that during a search and found a copy of a request made by Dia region in which you asked what contributions had benefited the farmer. "This is unfortunately a fact certainly worrying and worrying and may indicate the infiltration capacity in the institutions, especially regional by the mafia, "said the prosecutor in Catania, Vincenzo D'Agata told reporters who asked him of the discovery the document. "I would not anticipate conclusions on this point - he added - for certainly what emerges is a completely irregular, with respect to which it is necessary to carry out the investigations, which will of course be possible to detect profiles of criminal law with the consequent identification of those responsible. "The prosecutor of the Republic of Messina Guido Lo Forte, answering questions of journalists after the press conference, said:" This is a document that is the subject of investigations by the prosecutor in Catania, in relation to which I can not say anything. "