Assets for 20 million euros were seized by the financiers of the Vibo Valentia Economic and Financial Police Unit from the 78-year-old boss Giovanni Mancuso, known as "Billy", in execution of a provision issued by the Court of Catanzaro at the request of the Dda.

The operation, called "Terra nostra", involved 92 lands, 16 buildings, 9 cars, a tractor, 2 farms and 2 sole proprietorships. Surveys, coordinated by Catanzaro's prosecutor Nicola Gratteri,revealed procedures for the passage of goods, which, according to the accusation, apparently respect the canons of legality but that in reality they hide the perverse mechanisms of the mafia method.