Milan chief prosecutor Edmondo
Bruti Liberati has been placed under investigation for alleged
neglect to carry out duties regarding a corruption
investigation, a report said Wednesday.
The Corriere della Sera newspaper wrote that the
prosecutor's office of the northern Italian city of Brescia was
assessing whether to press charges against Bruti Liberati for
the "deplorable oversight" of leaving a corruption dossier
unattended for three months, locked in a vault.
The dossier in question is the SEA-Gamberale case, which
concerns the alleged rigging of a sale of a 29.75% stake in the
airport company SEA, made in 2011 by the City of Milan. The
prosecutor who oversaw the investigation, completed in February,
was Bruti Liberati's long-standing rival Alfredo Robledo.
Bruti Liberati on Friday stripped Robledo of his brief for
corruption cases after disputes between the pair reached the
level of official complaints.
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 and
has triggered speculation about the investigation into Bruti
Liberati's conduct.
Bruti Liberati would not comment on the reported probe into
himself, but a source said the prosecutor learned of it by
reading the newspaper.
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