AS Roma Chairman James
Pallotta said Wednesday plans to build the team's new stadium in
the Italian capital remain on course in spite of the so-called
Mafia Capitale scandal currently rocking the city to its
political foundations.
The investigation "is a good thing for the city because it
has cleaned it up," the American hedge fund manager said on his
way out of city hall.
"It will not slow down the new stadium's trajectory".
Roma in March announced a deal to build the new stadium
seating up to 52,000 spectators in the city's southern Tor di
Valle neighbourhood.
The project reportedly includes a subway station, a new
park on the Tiber river, a commercial area, and three towers to
be designed by Polish architect Daniel Libeskind.
Authorities have frozen public contract tenders in the wake
of the investigation, which has uncovered a local racketeering
organization headed by a former extreme-right terrorist and
involving politicians, public officials, and businessmen.
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