Chieti mayor investigated for corruption

(ANSA) - Pescara, January 8 - The centre-right mayor of Chieti, Umberto Di Primio, has been placed under investigation for alleged corruption, judicial sources said Thursday.
    The probe is an offshoot of a broader investigation into illegal trafficking of waste being conducted by the State forestry corps in the central Abruzzo region, which has already seen four people placed under house arrest.
    Di Primio is being probed along with two others for his alleged role in the construction of a large shopping centre in Chieti Scalo.
    Specifically, he is suspected of helping developers bypass obstacles in order to tip over 93,000 cubic metres of earth excavated from an old building site onto the site of the planned shopping mall, located on the Pescara river flood plain. Environmental activists and politicians denounced the resulting modification of the level of the flood plain.