Third suspect probed in Lodi graft case

(ANSA) - Lodi, May 4 - Finance police are investigating a third suspect in a bid-rigging case that led to the arrest of the mayor of the northern city of Lodi earlier this week, sources said Wednesday. Ex-mayor Simone Uggetti, who today suspended himself from the governing Democratic Party (PD), and lawyer Cristiano Marino are behind bars. The alleged third man is Luigi Pasquini, a restaurateur who is also president of the Wasken Boys sporting association, which was awarded a contract to manage the city's public swimming pools. Uggetti is accused of trying to format computers to make compromising correspondence about a contract to manage two city swimming pools disappear. Investigators believe the contract was steered to a specific company.