Rome prosecutor may probe contract tenders in capital (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 17 - Rome chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone is assessing whether to open an investigation based on a report by national anti-corruption czar Raffaele Cantone on public contract tenders in the nation's capital, sources said Thursday. The prosecutor's office will evaluate whether or not to include such a probe in the ongoing Rome Mafia case.
    In his report on city government practices between 2011-2014, Cantone wrote "there are contracts that can be lawfully assigned without a public call for tenders, but we discovered many that were assigned without such a call even when the prerequisites weren't there.
    This system is what allowed the so-called Rome Mafia to find a footing and flourish, Cantone's report said.
    The Rome Mafia inquiry has unearthed a criminal syndicate made up of gangsters, businessmen and politicians that allegedly muscled in on lucrative city contracts having to do with parks maintenance, migrant housing and Roma people camps, and waste management.