The mayor of Artena was arrested Friday in a graft probe in the town near Rome.
The first citizen, Felicetto Angelini, was placed under house
arrest in a probe into alleged illegal hirings for the council
and contract rigging for public works.
Artena's public works councillor was also arrested.
In all, 22 people were placed under investigation.
A preliminary investigations judge in Velletri said in his
warrant that there had been "systematic illicit activity in
altering procedures for hiring workers and assigning public
works via rigging the administrative procedures set up for that
purpose".
Angelini was in the news recently for having voiced condolences
to the family of a 21-year-old Italo-Cape Verdian man, Willy
Monteiro Duarte, who was beaten to death in the street by a
street gang from Artena in a nearby town.
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