It began with a suspicious bank employee in Andorra, a mini-state between France and Spain. She wanted to know more about the €12m ($14m) in the accounts of a client, an Italian woman whose son claimed she had inherited it from her late husband. A tip-off(秘密举报，告密) reached an officer at the Italian embassy in Madrid, sparking a global investigation that lasted almost three years. On May 28th it culminate(达到顶点，最终导致)d in the arrest of the woman, her son and her ex-husband, Giacomo Tamburello, who was very much alive and living under house arrest in Sicily, following a conviction for drug-trafficking. It also led to one of the biggest seizures ever co-ordinated by Italian law enforcement: at least €200m spread across(分布在，遍布于) nine jurisdictions.
事情始于安道尔（法国和西班牙之间的一个小国）一名疑心重重的银行职员。她想要了解更多关于一名客户账户中1200万欧元（合1400万美元）的信息，该客户是一位意大利女性，她的儿子声称这笔钱是她从已故丈夫那里继承的。一个举报线索传到了马德里意大利大使馆的一名官员那里，引发了一场持续近三年的全球调查。5月28日，调查最终逮捕了这名女子、她的儿子以及她的前夫贾科莫·坦布雷洛。坦布雷洛因毒品走私定罪后非常健康地生活在西西里岛的软禁中。这次行动还促成了意大利执法部门有史以来最大规模的资产扣押之一：至少2亿欧元分散在九个司法管辖区。
According to the 226-page warrant, the assets represented more than just the fortune of an international drug baron. It claims that 65-year-old Mr Tamburello, his ex-wife and their son, Luca, were the custodian(保管人，监护人)s of the liquid assets amass(积累，积聚)ed by a Mafia faction(派系，小集团) that in the 1990s declared war on the Italian state. Originating in the Sicilian town of Corleone and led by Salvatore “Totò” Riina, the corleonesi assassinated two anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino(① 背景：乔瓦尼·法尔科内（1939-1...), and brought terror to mainland Italy, planting bombs in Rome, Florence and Milan.
根据这份226页的逮捕令，这些资产代表的不仅仅是一位国际毒品大亨的财富。它声称65岁的坦布雷洛先生、他的前妻以及他们的儿子卢卡，是某个黑手党派系积累的流动资产的管理者。该派系在1990年代曾向意大利国家宣战。这个派系起源于西西里小镇科莱奥内，由萨尔瓦托雷（"托托"）·里纳领导，科莱奥内派系暗杀了两位反黑手党检察官乔瓦尼·法尔科内和保罗·博尔塞利诺，并在罗马、佛罗伦萨和米兰安放炸弹，给意大利本土带来了恐怖。
Italy’s chief anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo, linked the latest arrests and seizures to an attempt by the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, to stage a comeback(卷土重来，东山再起). Since the capture of Riina in 1993 (he died in jail in 2017), Cosa Nostra has been losing ground to the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta, the Neapolitan Camorra and foreign crime syndicates. Besides seizing the group’s ill-gotten gains, Mr Melillo said, “we have also thwart(挫败，阻挠)ed an attempt by Cosa Nostra to re-equip itself” with a unified organisation. That was an apparent reference to an outfit known as Cupola(① 背景：Cupola (意大利语意为“...), which co-ordinated Cosa Nostra’s activities and is believed to have been chaired by Riina.
意大利首席反黑手党检察官乔瓦尼·梅利洛将最近的逮捕和扣押行动与西西里黑手党科萨·诺斯特拉试图卷土重来的企图联系起来。自里纳1993年被捕（他于2017年死于狱中）以来，科萨·诺斯特拉一直在输给卡拉布里亚的恩德朗盖塔、那不勒斯的卡莫拉以及外国犯罪集团。梅利洛先生说，除了没收该组织的非法所得外，“我们还挫败了科萨·诺斯特拉用一个统一组织重新武装自己的企图”。这显然是指一个名为“库波拉”（Cupola）的组织，它曾协调科萨·诺斯特拉的活动，据信由里纳担任主席。