In wiretaps published by
L'Espresso weekly, Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi allegedly leans on
the former CEO of Rome waste company AMA, Lorenzo Bagnacani, to
push the firm's accounts into the red.
She allegedly wanted the accounts to be tweaked by
withholding credits from cemetery services.
Bagnacani said he was sacked after he refused to do the
mayor's bidding after her "undue pressure", the former manager
said in a police complaint published by L'Espresso.
Raggi should quit if the content of the new published
wiretaps turns out to be true, League Minister for Regional
Affairs Erika Stefani said Thursday.
Stefani said that, if true, the wiretaps would amount to "the
confession of a serious crime and a clear admission of a
flagrant inability to govern".
"In line with the rules of her 5-Star Movement we expect her
immediate resignation".
In a statement Thursday, Rome city council "there was never
any pressure (on Bagnacani) but the simple application of the
norms, the balance sheet proposed by Bagnacani broke the norms
and would have guaranteed bonuses for the CEO and the managers".
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