Tax cop 'promised 2.5 mn euros' to ease MOSE probes

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    (ANSA) - Milan, June 4 - A top tax cop was promised 2.5 million euros to influence inspections and criminal probes on the MOSE flood barriers in Venice, according to his arrest warrant released to the press Wednesday.
    Finance Guard General Emilio Spaziante, now retired, was one of 35, including Mayor Giorgio Orsoni, arrested on suspicion of involvement in an alleged 25-million-euro tender-rigging for the massive, near-completed project to protect the lagoon city.
    Spaziante eventually received half a million euros which he allegedly split with two of the other people arrested, the warrant said.