Chief of public company responsible for the organization put in jail with other six people.
by Emanuele Bonini
Seven people were arrested in Italy in a new bribe scandal connected to Expo 2015, the Universal exposition Italy will have the honour to host next year. Milan prosecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati said the suspects were taped by police in suspected efforts to offer bribes to secure contracts for next year’s world trade fair. Among the people put in jail there is Angelo Paris, one of the most important manager of Expo 2015 spa, public society responsible for the organization and management of the exposition. Paris was acting as director of Expo 2015 Construction and dismantling unit. Under arrest were also Primo Greganti e Gianstefano Frigerio, previously involved in the bribe scandals of the early 1990s known as "tangentopoli" (bribesville). These people, together with former Silvio Berlusconi's Pdl senator Luigi Grillo would have built a network up between politics and enterprises in order to grant contracts in return of bribes. Corruption, criminal conspiracy and bid rigging are the are crimes people arrested will have to respond for. Expo 2015 has still to start but Italy already wasted the opportunity to show seriousness. Unfortunately the country was able to show, once again, how unreliable is. Expo 2015 is already symbol of corruption and illegality, not a good way for self-promotion. Scandal took place in Italy and in the European Union, since Gianstefano Frigerio is actually working at EPP political office in Brussels. Definitely not a good new for Italy, already in credibility crisis abroad. Bel Paese have criminals at the EU institutions, it is probably what somebody will thing now. The point is: could we say are they wrong?
Seven people were arrested in Italy in a new bribe scandal connected to Expo 2015, the Universal exposition Italy will have the honour to host next year. Milan prosecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati said the suspects were taped by police in suspected efforts to offer bribes to secure contracts for next year’s world trade fair. Among the people put in jail there is Angelo Paris, one of the most important manager of Expo 2015 spa, public society responsible for the organization and management of the exposition. Paris was acting as director of Expo 2015 Construction and dismantling unit. Under arrest were also Primo Greganti e Gianstefano Frigerio, previously involved in the bribe scandals of the early 1990s known as "tangentopoli" (bribesville). These people, together with former Silvio Berlusconi's Pdl senator Luigi Grillo would have built a network up between politics and enterprises in order to grant contracts in return of bribes. Corruption, criminal conspiracy and bid rigging are the are crimes people arrested will have to respond for. Expo 2015 has still to start but Italy already wasted the opportunity to show seriousness. Unfortunately the country was able to show, once again, how unreliable is. Expo 2015 is already symbol of corruption and illegality, not a good way for self-promotion. Scandal took place in Italy and in the European Union, since Gianstefano Frigerio is actually working at EPP political office in Brussels. Definitely not a good new for Italy, already in credibility crisis abroad. Bel Paese have criminals at the EU institutions, it is probably what somebody will thing now. The point is: could we say are they wrong?
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