Former centre-right Rome mayor Gianni
Alemanno has been detained in Rome after his probation term was
revoked when he failed to comply with supervision conditions,
judicial sources have said.
In February 2022, Alemanno got a suspended sentence of one year
and 10 months in jail for influence peddling and illegal party
funding in one branch of the sprawling political-business
racketeering case in the Italian capital dubbed 'Middle World'.
The former hard right politician who was Rome mayor for Silvio
Berlusconi's now-defunct centre-right People of Freedom party
from 2008 to 2013 allegedly failed to respect release conditions
meeting, among other things, a person with a police record,
according to the sources.
Alemanno, who was taken to Rome's Rebibbia prison, allegedly met
several times during the course of 2024 with former lawyer Paolo
Colosimo, who was sentenced to four years and six months in 2018
as part of the Fastweb fraud case, according to court papers.
The surveillance court decided to order Alemanno's detention
also based on a new investigation into potential fiscal crimes
committed by the former mayor, according to investigative
sources.
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