Twenty-one people from 11 firms
face a possible trial for bid-rigging over a 2.7-billion-euro
tender issued by civil service procurement agency CONSIP,
judicial sources said Monday.
Prosecutors say the accused, who include the Naples
businessman at the centre of the probe, Alfredo Romeo, of
forming a cartel to divvy up the 18 lots of the tender.
For a 1.6-billion-euro contract to supply cleaning services
for public schools alone, prosecutors have requested the
indictment of six people including the heads of the companies
Consorzio Nazionale Servizi, Manutencoop and Roma Multiservizi
SpA.
In the investigation, Sports Minister Luca Lotti is being
probed for allegedly tipping off CONSIP CEO Luigi Marroni about
the probe.
The father of ex-premier and centre-left Democratic Party
(PD) leader Matteo Renzi, Tiziano, is being probed for alleged
influence-peddling.
photo: Romeo
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