Gadhafi son's Cadillac seized in Italy

The Escalade was left behind at a luxury hotel four years ago and had become a tourist attraction

A black Cadillac Escalade belonging to the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been impounded by Italian tax police outside a luxury hotel where it has been parked for the last four years after the son simply left it behind. The Italian tax police, the Guardia di Finanza, showed up at the lavish Excelsior Palace Hotel, which is set in terraced gardens with panoramic views of the bay of Portofino, and officially taped up Al-Saadi Gadhafi's luxury SUV, ready to be towed away. The tax police seized the car following a request made earlier this year by the International Criminal Court in the Hague to collect all former Gadhafi assets to compensate victims of the dictator's 32-year regime. The Excelsior's manager Aldo Werdin told ABC News today that the car has been parked the hotel's lot since February 2008 when the dictator summoned his son back to Libya. "He left his friends and two adored dogs at the hotel," Werdin said. "After a few days the Libyan embassy came and picked up the friends and the dogs, but refused to pay the bill and didn't take the car."