Lodi mayor arrested (2)

(ANSA) - Lodi, May 3 - Finance police arrested Lodi Mayor Simone Uggetti, a member of Premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party (PD), on Tuesday for alleged bid rigging on tenders for public pools, ANSA sources said. A lawyer in Lodi, in the northern region of Lombardy, was also arrested in the investigation and police seized documents from city hall.
    Uggetti, 42, was elected in June 2013 with 53.62% of the vote.
    From 2005-2013 he served as assessor for the environment, urban planning, sustainable transport and productive activities in the two Lodi administrations led by Lorenzo Guerini, who is new the deputy secretary of the PD.
    He was a Lodi city councillor from 1995-2005.