The datasets reported relate to criminal networks directly obtained from Court data: Meetings dataset, accounts for the physical meetings among suspected (police stakeout). It is composed by 101 nodes and 256 edges. Phone Calls dataset refers to phone calls among individuals (police eavesdropping). It is composed by 100 nodes and 124 edges. Roles dataset address the role of the suspected as well as their relationship with the other suspected, and the request from the judge (e.g. arrested/in jail/etc.). Meetings and Phone Calls datasets have in common 47 nodes (i.e., suspected). “Our datasets were derived from the pre-trial detention order issued by the Court of Messina’s preliminary investigation judge on March 14, 2007, which was towards the end of the major anti-mafia operation referred to as “Montagna Operation”. This operation was concluded in 2007 by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Messina (Sicily) and was conducted by the Special Operations Unit of the Italian Police (the R.O.S. Reparto Operativo Speciale of the Carabinieri is specializing in anti-Mafia investigations). This particular investigation was a prominent operation focused on two Mafia clans, known as the “Mistretta” family and the “Batanesi clan”. From 2003 to 2007, these families were found to had infiltrated several economic activities including major infrastructure works, through a cartel of entrepreneurs close to the Sicilian Mafia.” (From https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05303) For more details, please refer to: Journal publication PLoS ONE: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/citation?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236476 Preliminary analysis in our conference paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_36 Our pre-print on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05303 Our GitHub Repository: https://github.com/lcucav/networkdistruption