Prosecutors to question Delrio

(ANSA) - Rome, May 23 - Potenza prosecutors will question Transport Minister Graziano Delrio as an informed witness in an oil corruption probe Tuesday in Rome, ANSA has learned Monday.
    Prosecutors will hear Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi on April 4 and Cabinet Secretary Claudio De Vincenti on May 10. Delrio will answer questions about alleged pressure made on him by Confindustria industrialists' association deputy chairman Ivan Lo Bello, who is under investigation. Investigators believe Lo Bello pressured Delrio to keep lawyer Alberto Cozzo on as special commissioner for the Augusta port authority. The Augusta port was the location of what investigators are calling "a little business quarter" of corrupt officials and businessmen including former industry minister Federica Guidi's boyfriend, Gianluca Gemelli.
    Cozzo stayed on in the position but Delrio has denied both in parliament and in public that he was pressured into making that decision. However on May 16, Delrio replaced Cozzo with local port authority chief Antonio Donato.