Assess putting Major Works into admin (3)

(ANSA) - Rome, October 26 - Anti-corruption authority ANAC will assess whether to put Italy's Major Works programme under a special commissioner after two graft probes exploded Wednesday, ANAC chief Raffaele Cantone said. He said ANAC had asked for copies of the warrants and "we will see whether there the conditions to put some tenders under the administration of a commissioner". He said "we are ready to do so if necessary". Several high-profile figures were among dozens arrested on Wednesday in relation to two separate probes into corruption in major public works projects. COCIV President Michele Longo and Vice President Ettore Pagani were among 14 arrested by Genoa finance police, sources said. Giandomenico Monorchio, a businessman and son of former chief State accountant Andrea Monorchio, was among those arrested in the Rome probe, sources said. Giuseppe Lunardi, the son of former transport minister Pietro Lunardi, is under investigation but was not arrested, sources said.
    Premier Matteo Renzi said he hoped the trials resulting from the two related probes are "fair and fast". "The central point is that it isn't the rules than make man a thief," he added. "And in any case, we are talking about arrests linked to affairs of the past. We can't stop doing things because there are people who steal. That is the mistaken attitude that closed the door to the (2024) Olympics in Rome".
    A preliminary investigations judge said in a bench warrant that Calabria businessman Domenico Gallo, who was arrested Wednesday in one of the probes, used mafia-style intimidation methods to pressure other businessmen into purchasing inert materials from companies he indicated. Gallo "has contacts with individuals in organized crime", the warrant said. For example, he was invited to the Confirmation of the daughter of Domenico Borrello, a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia affiliate.