Former Ostia police commissioner under house arrest

(ANSA) - Rome, July 29 - Franco Antonio, a former police commissioner in the Rome seaside suburb of Ostia who had been transferred to Lucca, was put under house arrest on Friday in relation to a corruption probe, ANSA sources said. Mauro Carfagna, a businessman who has several slot-machine outlets in Ostia, was arrested and taken to prison in relation to the same probe and a total of seven people are under investigation, the sources said. Franco is suspected of helping Carfagna solve administrative problems and of alerting him in advance of inspections of his businesses in exchange for payment of the rent on a flat he used to meet a woman he was having a relationship with. In one case, he allegedly advised Carfagna on what to do to cover up irregularities at one of his outlets and avoid an eviction order.