Near six million seized from ex-Pompeii commissioner-update

(ANSA) - Naples, March 4 - Naples finance police on Wednesday seized 5.77 million euros in assets linked to Marcello Fiori, the former extraordinary commissioner of the Pompeii archaeological site, ANSA sources said. The operation was conducted at the end of a probe in which nine officials from the culture ministry and region of Campania are also implicated. The probe concerns works for a show at Pompeii's Large Theatre in 2010. Investigators suspect that the contracts were awarded without a public competition and were beyond the remit of emergency powers granted to commissioner to safeguard the site.