Raggi probe shelved (3)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 27 - A judge on Tuesday shelved a probe into Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi for allegedly failing to declare she had worked as a paid consultant for the Civitavecchia health agency while she was a Rome city councillor. The case was shelved at the request of a prosecutor who said Raggi's explanation of her failure to disclose the consultancy was "plausible" in view of the "contradictory" nature of the forms she was supposed to use to do it. The probe has been one of the sources of pressure on Raggi, who is struggling to put together a cabinet more than three months after her landslide election in June.