Ten people including businessmen
and public officials were arrested for graft in Rome on
Thursday.
The arrested persons have been charged with corruption,
defrauding the State, and bid rigging, police said.
Three entrepreneurs working in the construction sector,
private managers and public officials in the customs and
monopolies agency were arrested.
The flying squad's anti-corruption section also seized more
than nine million euros in assets.
The probe concerned illicit ties between a business group and
some public functionaries in assigning contracts for managing
and restructuring property owned by the economy ministry's
pension fund, police said.
Two businessmen were taken to preventive custody in jail and
eight other persons including public officials were placed under
house arrest.
The businessmen were named as Ernesto and Gianfranco
Brozzetti, two builders.
A house-arrest warrant was served in absentia on a Banca
Mediolanum manager who is currently abroad.
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