(see related)Wiretaps show ex
right-wing terrorist and gangster Massimo Carminati did not look
forward to the appointment of Giuseppe Pigatone as Rome chief
prosecutor, sources said Wednesday.
"He won't play," the jailed suspect in a Rome mafia probe
said in a January 2012 wiretap. "He'll turn Rome on its
head...he did it Calabria...he won't let politics swallow him
up".
Pignatone has placed over 100 people under investigation in
the probe into an alleged Rome crime syndicate, including former
center-right mayor Gianni Alemanno.
The organisation allegedly run by Carminati, allegedly
rigged Rome city contracts worth many millions of euros in
sectors ranging from waste disposal to transportation to the
management of migrant reception centres and Roma camps.
Also on Wednesday, sources at city hall said rotation of
civil service managers could begin within the next 36 hours.
Center-left Mayor Ignazio Marino last weekend announced the
measure designed to keep city agencies running and
corruption-free while the mafia probe runs its course.
Marino, a member of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
of Premier Matteo Renzi, has not been implicated.
The mayor's staff is at work on a set of rules for how to
rotate the agency executives, and will meet with unions shortly,
the sources said.
As well, prosecutors are investigating the December 5 theft
of a computer after a late-night break-in into Rome's parks
services and civil protection offices.
Police sources said the theft could be linked to the
ongoing mafia probe. The security cameras on both buildings
had been down for several days, investigative sources told ANSA.
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