A prime suspect in alleged graft at
Milan's Expo 2015 world fair has admitted he received money but
said the sums were "presents" and not bribes, judicial sources
said Tuesday.
Gianstefano Frigerio, the alleged pointman for centre-right
bribes, said May 12 he had taken cash from businessman Enrico
Maltauro but these were "gifts" and had "nothing to do with
tender-rigging", the sources said.
On Monday evening Angelo Paris, the former procurement
manager arrested along with Frigerio and alleged centre-left
middleman Primo Greganti, admitted "tinkering with" tenders in
exchange for promises of career advancement.
Also on Tuesday, a judge rejected a request by former MP
Luigi Grillo, an ex-member of Silvio Berlusconi's party, to be
allowed out of jail to house arrest.
Similar requests by Frigerio and Paris were rejected Monday.
Premier Matteo Renzi has given national anti-graft czar
carte blanche to clean up tender procedures at the highly
anticipated event, where almost 150 countries will gather to
discuss new ways to defeat hunger sustainably from May 1 to
October 31 next year.
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