Bari mayor scrubs councillor in EU fund probe

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 15 - Bari mayor Antonio Decaro on Monday pulled the job mandate of Budget Councillor Alessandro D'Adamo after he weas placed under investigation in a EU fraud probe, one of a string of probes that have hit the Puglia city's Democratic Party (PD) led administration.
    Several other PD councillors have been implicated in a mafia vote buying case and the central government in Rome has sent inspectors to see if the council has been infiltrated by the Mob.
    The probes have undermined a leftwing unity drive with the populist 5-Star Movement (m5S) whose leader, ex premier Giuseppe Conte, pulled out of local and European election primaries saying the PD had to clean itself up, spurring the ire of many PD members. (ANSA).