During a ceremony in which she unveiled a street renamed after a mafia prosecutor, Ms Savona listed mafia victims, including anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who were killed in separate bomb blasts in 1992.
Often only the mafia have enough cash to lend to companies in trouble and Nino Daniele, who runs an anti-mafia campaign group in Naples, says the situation is explosive.
Anti-Mafia prosecutor Pierluigi Vigna said that cocaine had surpassed heroin as drug of choice for smugglers.
The anti-mafia agency said in a statement it was the biggest ever seizure of mafia-linked assets.
Piero Grasso, 68, an anti-mafia magistrate from Sicily, became the speaker of the Senate.
Mr Andreotti took a public anti-Mafia stance from 1980 onwards, the written ruling said.
But the anti-Mafia investigators found no evidence to support the allegation that had triggered their work.
The anti-mafia movement in Sicily is heartening, but organised crime has spread to the north as well.
An anti-mafia group, however, says despite many studies into mafia money, it is "not easy to quantify".
Italy's parliamentary anti-mafia commission has described the group as the country's most dangerous - and richest - mafia.
The magistrates asked the Bank of Italy to help the anti-Mafia division investigate.
It also was considered ominous that the bomb detonated the day before an anti-Mafia procession was scheduled to go through Brindisi.
Pistone is one of the heroes of the North American anti-mafia fight.
He was found guilty in 2008 of divulging information about anti-mafia investigations.
But Marcello Cozzi, vice-president of Libera, a main anti-mafia organisation in Italy, says the mafia does not do business that is easily quantified.
The great-grandmother known affectionately as "Mama Africa" reportedly suffered a heart attack after performing at an anti-mafia concert Sunday in southern Italy.
Its biggest loans were to a firm whose assets had been sequestered by the anti-Mafia authorities and which was being managed by the court-appointed administrator.
Brave anti-Mafia activism has played a part in the town's story.
Pier Luigi Bersani's party was given a boost on Thursday when anti-mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso said he would run for office under the Democratic Party banner.
After all, the school was named for Judge Francesca Morvillo Falcone who was killed with her husband, Giovanni Falcone, another anti-Mafia judge by a Mafia bomb 20 years ago.
If Bersani fails, Napolitano could tap someone else, a fresh face to politics, like newly chosen Senate President Piero Grasso, a widely respected former anti-Mafia prosecutor, said D'Alimonte, a professor at LUISS university in Rome.
He held an unusual televised meeting with drivers, but later launched a sweeping anti-mafia campaign that resulted in a wealthy businessman accused of organising the strike being sentenced to 20 years in prison for gangsterism and disrupting transport.
The Democratic Party received a boost earlier on Friday when anti-mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso appeared alongside party leader Pier Luigi Bersani, saying he wanted to be "at the service of a country that has reached the maximum of confusion".
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