Finance police on Friday seized assets worth a total of around 100 million euros from Cristiano Guarnera, a businessman who is among dozens of people arrested as part of a massive probe into allegations a mafia organization muscled in on city of Rome contracts. Stakes in companies, three plots of land and 179 properties were among the assets confiscated from Guarnera.
Around 100 people are under investigation as part of the so-called Mafia Capitale probe, including the city's former centre-right mayor Gianni Alemanno.
A Rome court on Friday released from jail two former executives, Riccardo Mancini and Giovanni Fiscon, implicated in a probe.
But the court decided Salvatore Buzzi, an ex-convict who headed cooperatives with city contracts who is an alleged ringleader of the organisation, should stay behind bars. Mancini is the former head of Rome's Ente EUR agency. He regained his liberty but Fiscon, the former general manager of city trash company AMA, was released to house arrest.
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