Rome chief prosecutor Giuseppe
Pignatone is assessing whether to open an investigation based on
a report by national anti-corruption czar Raffaele Cantone on
public contract tenders in the nation's capital, sources said
Thursday.
The prosecutor's office will evaluate whether or not to
include such a probe in the ongoing Rome Mafia case.
In his report on city government practices between
2011-2014, Cantone wrote "there are contracts that can be
lawfully assigned without a public call for tenders, but we
discovered many that were assigned without such a call even when
the prerequisites weren't there.
This system is what allowed the so-called Rome Mafia to
find a footing and flourish, Cantone's report said.
The Rome Mafia inquiry has unearthed a criminal syndicate
made up of gangsters, businessmen and politicians that allegedly
muscled in on lucrative city contracts having to do with parks
maintenance, migrant housing and Roma people camps, and waste
management.
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