If the Sicilians were earning more than the Medellin cartel, how do you think they stayed under the radar? And what was the mafia’s biggest money earner outside of drugs and did it compare to what they were making in drugs? Also, if you can then link me some of the seizures worth billions. I’ll look for them myself as well, but the only one I know of is the one involving Denaro.
there is a link of assets seized from organized crime groups in italy, it's in italian but you can use google translate; 11.640 is the total, and almost half (4.728) of them in sicily, and some of the ones seized across italy belonged to sicilian mafia too, so about 60% of the total
they are official numbers, not speculations
https://www.wired.it/attualita/politica/2017/07/19/beni-confiscati-mafie-mappa/?refresh_ce=
