Soccer: Mafia probe won't slow down Roma stadium - Pallotta

(ANSA) - Rome, December 10 - AS Roma Chairman James Pallotta said Wednesday plans to build the team's new stadium in the Italian capital remain on course in spite of the so-called Mafia Capitale scandal currently rocking the city to its political foundations.
    The investigation "is a good thing for the city because it has cleaned it up," the American hedge fund manager said on his way out of city hall.
    "It will not slow down the new stadium's trajectory".
    Roma in March announced a deal to build the new stadium seating up to 52,000 spectators in the city's southern Tor di Valle neighbourhood.
    The project reportedly includes a subway station, a new park on the Tiber river, a commercial area, and three towers to be designed by Polish architect Daniel Libeskind.
    Authorities have frozen public contract tenders in the wake of the investigation, which has uncovered a local racketeering organization headed by a former extreme-right terrorist and involving politicians, public officials, and businessmen.