The centre-right mayor of
Chieti, Umberto Di Primio, has been placed under investigation
for alleged corruption, judicial sources said Thursday.
The probe is an offshoot of a broader investigation into
illegal trafficking of waste being conducted by the State
forestry corps in the central Abruzzo region, which has already
seen four people placed under house arrest.
Di Primio is being probed along with two others for his
alleged role in the construction of a large shopping centre in
Chieti Scalo.
Specifically, he is suspected of helping developers bypass
obstacles in order to tip over 93,000 cubic metres of earth
excavated from an old building site onto the site of the planned
shopping mall, located on the Pescara river flood plain.
Environmental activists and politicians denounced the
resulting modification of the level of the flood plain.
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