Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi was again
summoned on Monday by prosecutors investigating alleged
corruption related to AS Roma's project to build a new stadium,
sources said.
Raggi was questioned by investigators as a witness with
knowledge of the case on Friday.
Last week investigators said that neither Raggi nor
the Serie A club were suspected of any wrongdoing after the
arrest of nine people over the alleged graft.
The investigation regards alleged corruption linked to a
revision of the initial project.
The revision was okayed by Raggi's administration in February
2017 and saw the volume of the project cut by half.
The city said Monday that so far its checks had not detected
any anomalies in the procedures for the stadium.
"Roma's stadium will certainly be part of this city's
future," said Rome city planing chief Luca Montuori.
"If the procedure was correct, as we believe it was, then we
can move forward.
"We decided to verify some key parts because the citizens
have the right to responses about what has been happening over
the last few days.
"No part of the procedure seems in the slightest way affected
by the problems that we are reading about in the newspapers.
"If this is confirmed, we'll keep going".
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