Gennaro De Angelis, 67, Antonio Di Gabriele, 66, and Aladino Saidi, 34, were ordered to report to police in their places of residence in the south of the Lazio region around Rome for the next three years after the seizure of assets including 17 companies, two one-man firms, 31 buildings, 14 plots of land, 16 cars and 118 bank accounts.
The assets were located in Rome and southern Lazio, at Castrocielo, Cassino, Aquino, Frosinone, Formia, and Gaeta; as well as in L'Aquila in Abruzzo.
Police said De Angelis had been linked to the Casalesi since 1970 and, as well as supplying them with weapons for a major turf war, had invested much of their capital in front companies in Italy and abroad.
In Southern Lazio, they said, De Angelis controlled protection rackets, money laundering, fraud and the illegal importation of cars from other countries in the European Union.
Tuesday's operation, codenamed Bottle Green from the colour of one of Schiavone's favourite Jaguars, given to him by De Angelis, was hailed by Justice Minister Angelino Alfano as "the largest seizure of ill-gotten gains ever outside Campania," the home region of the Camorra.
"The culture of prevention is spreading from the regions historically afflicted by the Camorra," he said.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said "the Casalesi clan has been struck to the heart".
He said seizing mafia assets was a linchpin of the government's strategy against the mafia.
Schiavone, a superboss featured in Roberto Saviano's 2006 expose' Gomorrah, has been in jail since 1998.
He is nicknamed Sandokan after Italy's most famous literary pirate.
Schiavone is one of the Casalesi bosses whose death threats against Saviano have forced the 31-year-old writer into round-the-clock police protection.
Sourced at Life in Italy.com by Daran Oswyn Jones
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