"The total assets of the family are estimated at over EUR 500 million" they weren't trying to make half a billion they already had that in assets.
The way I read it in Italian and English sources is that they invested around 50 million euros in Brazil which, according to Italian authorities, in total value could exceed 500 million euros. If everything worked out. But instead the worth is 50 million. The sum that was seized.
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