Criminal? Italian mafia interior tastes exposed - in pictures

The living room of jailed Camorra clan member Nicola Schiavone's mansion in Casal di Principe, near Naples, part of 'an Aladdin's cave of luxury tackiness'. Nice chaise longue Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

A tax police officer seems baffled by what appears to be a shower unit (or is it the entrance to some sort of crime vortex?), decked ceiling to floor in Murano glass mosaic tiles and stuck smack bang in the middle of the bathroom. Or is it the kitchen? Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

Tax police take a photograph of what appears to be Buddha, spray-painted gold, perhaps for forensic experts to decide exactly what it is Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

Coat of harms: Nicola Schiavone appears to have gone for the regal shell suit look Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

Anyone got any paracetamol? The headache-inducing 'blue-and-white noise' mosaic design of one of the five bathrooms at Comorra gangster Nicola Schiavone's home at Casal di Princip. Apparently the contents of the confiscated flat will be auctioned off to social groups - bagsy the black Ikea cabinet Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

The mansion of Nicola Schiavone, now seized by police, offers a range of ceramic religious figurines and chairs pushed suspiciously close together Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

Colonel Roberto Prosperi of the Italian tax police, who ordered the mansion's seizure, described the home as 'all a bit too much'. He said Nicola Schiavone obviously 'felt a bit like god, or Napoleon' Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

A scene from the nativity, perhaps, photographed at jailed Camorra gangster Nicola Schiavone's newly confiscated mansion Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

Police and soldiers pack up the treasure trove of tasteful goodies – local removal firms were apparently too wary to remove the goods, prompting officials to call in the army Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

A no doubt very expensive and sought after box set of vintage grappa, confiscated from the mafia-owned mansion of Nicola Schiavone Photograph: Felice De Martino/ANSA

Nicola Schiavone reportedly set up TV cameras around his house – here's one cunningly camouflaged within an ornate picture frame. Oh, it's a table, the buddha is a table, not a picture
Photograph: ANSA