Prosecutors on Thursday requested
a prison term of four years, six months for Raffaele Marra, the
Rome city council's former head of personnel, in a corruption
case.
The accusations relate to almost 400,000 euros that Marra
allegedly received from construction businessman Sergio
Scarpellini for the acquisition of an apartment in the Prati
Fiscali district in 2013, a property that was put in the name of
his wife.
Prosecutors also requested that the apartment in question be
seized.
The case against Scarpellini, who was accused of involvement
in corruption, was shelved in July due to him being in extremely
poor health.
"The heart of the trial is to establish whether that gift was
a loan between friends or the price of making Marra's public
role bow to the interests of the constructor Scarpellini," the
prosecutor said.
Marra was once considered a close aide of Rome Mayor Virginia
Raggi.
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