(ANSA) - Rome, March 21 - Rome city council sports chief
Daniele Frongia is under investigation in a graft probe
involving the construction of AS Roma's new stadium, sources
said Thursday.
Former deputy mayor Frongia, considered a right-hand man of
Mayor Virginia Raggi of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S), has been placed under investigation in the part of the
probe that has led to the arrest of the former head of the ACEA
municipal power utility Luca Lanzalone and businessman Luca
Parnasi.
"I trust the probe will be shelved," said Frongia.
Minister for Relations with Parliament Riccardo Fraccaro, an
M5s bigwig, said he had "confidence" in Raggi and that the
Frongia case was "not serious".
Marcello De Vito, the former president of the Rome city
council assembly, used the right to remain silent in questioning
with a preliminary investigations judge on Thursday after he was
arrested in the corruption probe on Wednesday, his lawyer said.
De Vito was stripped of his role in the city assembly and
ejected from the 5-Star Movement (M5S) after his arrest.
Rome sports chief Frongia probed
De Vito declines to speak to prosecutors