Italian police have seized a yacht that once belonged to Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from a businessman suspected to be linked to organised crime.
The yacht was among €28 million ($47 million) in assets - including real estate and luxury cars - seized after an investigation into three individuals and 10 firms, finance police said.
A confiscation order from a Rome court named the yacht owner as Salvatore Squillante, 68. The lawyer acting for Squillante declined to comment.
Squillante bought the classic sailing boat, christened the Black Flame by a Fascist friend who gave it to Mussolini as a present in the 1930s, through one of the seized companies.
The boat was deliberately sunk in 1943 to stop it falling into German hands after the Fascist regime fell, and was hauled out and restored after the war.