Italian financial police have executed a €50 million asset seizure targeting a mafia-connected fishing enterprise with extensive operations in Morocco, representing Italy's largest such operation in 2025. The international scope of the investigation spans Italy and Morocco, where the criminal organization had established significant business interests through a Gela-based entrepreneur. According to local Italian media, the seizure involved companies operating across national territories, including Morocco, where the convicted businessman had assumed control of a company with suspected connections to Campania-based entities. The Caltanissetta Finance Guard coordinated the operation against more than 40 properties, fishing vessels, and business complexes with operational ramifications extending to Moroccan territory. The entrepreneur, definitively convicted of mafia association, served as a key figure in the criminal organization's strategy to expand economically into the African Mediterranean coast. Investigations revealed the mafia's interest in extending fish commerce from Morocco, where another member of the criminal consortium already operated, demonstrating the organization's systematic infiltration of legitimate fishing markets across international borders. The businessman was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison, confirmed by Italy's Supreme Court in 2023.
