Milan chief prosecutor Edmondo
Bruti Liberati said Friday that he stripped rival Alfredo
Robledo of his brief for corruption cases after disputes between
the pair reached the level of official complaints.
"I am the chief prosecutor and having regard to the
disputes that were there, I decided to take this action to
resolve the situation," Liberati said.
The long-running and angry clash within the Milan
prosecutors' office reached new heights with Liberati's decision
to shift Robledo to the office in charge of criminal probes.
Liberati added that his actions were an attempt to resolve
"problems in the general management of the office" of
anti-corruption cases under Robledo's leadership.
The pair have been at odds for months after Robledo filed a
formal complaint to Italian judiciary's self-governing body, the
CSM, against Bruti Liberati over several high-profile cases.
These include the case against Silvio Berlusconi for
allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing
his office to cover up the affair - charges that the ex-premier
was cleared of after an appeals court overturned a conviction at
the first-instance trial.
Robledo argued that Bruti Liberati's decision to hand the
Berlusconi sex case to anti-Mafia prosecutor Ilda Boccassini was
illegitimate.
Bruti Liberati has hit back at Robledo, saying he
interfered in a case regarding alleged corruption in Milan Expo
2015 contracts and put the investigation in peril.
Supreme court prosecutors are looking into the clash
between the two.
On Friday sources close to Robledo said he was "serene" and
would respond to the transfer by reporting to the CSM.
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