Rome and Milan tremble with new corruption allegations

[rooster59]

Rome and Milan tremble with new corruption allegations

Robert Hackwill

 

 

Municipal authorities in Italy’s two biggest cities have come under judicial scrutiny amid corruption allegations.

 

Raffaele Marra, an aide to Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud in relation to a property deal dating back to 2013.

 

 

 

The mayor, a 5-Star Movement member, and her administration are not implicated.

“Marra was already a manager of this municipality, and we trusted him. We were probably wrong, and I regret this. I apologise to the people of Rome, I apologise to the Five Star Movement and its leader Beppe Grillo, who had raised some doubts,” said Raggi after the arrest.

 

Since capturing the capital for 5-Star earlier this year Raggi has been plagued with headaches, including resignations and infighting.

 

In Italy’s financial powerhouse Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala says he is stepping aside after learning he is under investigation.

 

There are suspicions of corruption around tender bids made for the 2015 Expo in the city.

 

Sala, who is a member of the ruling Democratic Party, was the expo’s CEO before becoming mayor this year.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-12-17

[jpinx]

Tip of the iceberg   ....  and people wonder why UK wants out of the EU?

[humqdpf]

5 hours ago, jpinx said:

Tip of the iceberg   ....  and people wonder why UK wants out of the EU?

In fairness to the UK, the narrow majority who voted in favour of Brexit did not care about Italy or Greece or even Ireland when all 3 went into economic/financial meltdown - the reason? Because the UK never had to pay or bail out because not in the Euro.

 

The big deal in the UK Brexit is about immigration or more specifically migration of EU citizens to the UK. They never really had a problem with Italians going to the UK because there were relatively few of them and they gave the brits Italian cuisine. Their real problem is with the Eastern Europeans - the Poles because they do their work so well and show up the locals (and open up their shops on high streets and become therefore highly visible), the Romanians who sponge off the welfare and other European nationalities who arrive as criminals.

[elgordo38]

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Municipal authorities in Italy’s two biggest cities have come under judicial scrutiny amid corruption allegations.

South Korea's Park part 2. Our trusted officials are falling like domino's. After all the hoopla/demonstrations in S. Korea she calmly claims "You have no evidence" end of story. 

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, humqdpf said:

In fairness to the UK, the narrow majority who voted in favour of Brexit did not care about Italy or Greece or even Ireland when all 3 went into economic/financial meltdown - the reason? Because the UK never had to pay or bail out because not in the Euro.

 

The big deal in the UK Brexit is about immigration or more specifically migration of EU citizens to the UK. They never really had a problem with Italians going to the UK because there were relatively few of them and they gave the brits Italian cuisine. Their real problem is with the Eastern Europeans - the Poles because they do their work so well and show up the locals (and open up their shops on high streets and become therefore highly visible), the Romanians who sponge off the welfare and other European nationalities who arrive as criminals.

 

Racial stereotyping - your hobby?

 

Don't worry about reality just post your colorful and non factual bias.

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, jpinx said:

Tip of the iceberg   ....  and people wonder why UK wants out of the EU?

 

I don't think all Britain's politicians, at national and local level are known for their absolute honesty, ethics and trustworthiness are they?

 

Corruption is something that politics sadly seems to breed.

[Retiredandhappyhere]

Of course there has been some corruption among Britain's M.P.'s but in almost all cases the amounts involved were tiny compared to the disclosures about European and other foreign figures.  Corruption nevertheless of course, but more often than not in the low thousands rather than millions.

[Prbkk]

She's hopeless: came into office promising reform and transparency but she can't even manage the garbage collection service. Rome has MOUNTAINS of stinking, rotting rubbish that just sits in the streets, uncollected for weeks/months. She promised to fix it, among a hundred other things. So far: zilch.