Italian Culture Minister Dario
Franceschini on Wednesday said "justice would run its course"
in a probe implicating the former extraordinary commissioner for
the Pompeii archaeological site, Marcello Fiori.
Naples tax police seized 5.77 million euros in assets
linked to Fiori, ANSA sources said.
The operation was conducted at the end of a probe which
also implicated nine officials from the culture ministry and
region of Campania.
The investigation concerns works for a show at Pompeii's
Large Theatre in 2010.
Investigators suspect that the contracts were awarded
without a public competition and were beyond the remit of
emergency powers granted to the commissioner to safeguard the
site.
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