Puglia functionary, businessman arrested in graft probe

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 9 - A functionary at the Puglia regional government and a Bari construction entrepreneur were arrested Thursday in a graft case in the southern Italian region.
    Sources said Guardia di Finanza tax police executed in Bari and its province two precautionary measures of house arrest against a Puglia Region official and a Bari-based building contractor accused, for various reasons, of corruption for an act contrary to official duties and material falsity committed by a public official in public duties.
    The offences were allegedly committed in 2021.
    The seizure of assets in the possession of the two arrested persons and of a manager, at the time of the events, of the Region's Bursar's Office and Civil Protection Sections (not reached by precautionary measure) for 80,000 euros is also under way, judicial sources said.
    The seizures included bank accounts and property. (ANSA).