In December 2008, it was reported that Salemi, Sicily had made a successful bid for the collection, as part of a village restoration effort.
Salemi |
Digs have been conducted in Salemi itself by Northern Illinois University, and on an adjacent site known as Monte Polizzo by archaeologists from the University of Oslo and the Soprintendenza di Trapani, with help from Göteborg University and Stanford University as well as a team from MiT.
Lima arranged an unusually lucrative concession to collect taxes in Sicily to Antonio Salvo and Ignazio Salvo, two wealthy mafia-cousins from the town of Salemi in the province of Trapani, in exchange for their loyalty to Salvo Lima and the Andreotti faction of the DC.