Naples anti-mafia investigators
have dropped a case against Campania regional councillor Stefano
Graziano, the former head of Premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left
democratic Party (PD) in the southern region, for alleged
external participation in mafia association, ANSA sources said
Monday. The investigators have sent probe documents to
prosecutors in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, near Caserta, only in
relation to alleged vote buying, without the aggravating factor
of Camorra purposes, the sources said.
Graziano suspended himself as regional chief of the PD
after police searched his homes and office in Rome and in the
town of Teverola, near Caserta, in April as part of a probe that
led to nine arrests, including that of restaurateur and
businessman Alessandro Zagaria.
Initially, investigators were scrutinizing Zagaria's
alleged backing of Graziano's electoral campaign.
Zagaria was thought to be a member of the Casalesi clan of
the Camorra mafia in Campania and an intermediary between the
mafia and the political and business worlds.
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