Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino met
Wednesday with prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and delivered a set
of documents which sources said may be useful in the ongoing
police probe into mafia activities allegedly reaching to high
levels in Rome.
Over 100 people have been placed under investigation in the
probe, including former Rome center-right mayor Gianni Alemanno.
The mafia organisation, allegedly run by ex-right-wing
terrorist and gangster Massimo Carminati, allegedly managed to
rig City of Rome contracts worth millions.
Marino, a member of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
of Premier Matteo Renzi, has not been implicated.
On Tuesday, Renzi vowed that the culprits will be punished
to the fullest extent.
Renzi also announced that his government will raise the
minimum jail term for corruption to six years, and that the
statute of limitations for graft felonies will be lengthened.
"The corrupt will pay for everything," Renzi said via his
Twitter account, @matteorenzi, as the Italian political world
continued to feel the aftershocks of the probe prosecutors
revealed last week.
He added the changes will be proposed formally on Thursday.
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