Italian police have raided the home of an ex-mayor of Rome in an anti-mafia sweep that also snared a one-eyed mobster who is one of the most notorious figures in Italy's recent history.
Former mayor Gianni Alemanno and the city's current anti-corruption chief Italo Walter Politano were among about 100 people named on Tuesday as being under investigation in a probe into a criminal network that police said had become very powerful in the Italian capital.
They believe it was run by Massimo Carminati, who was given a 10-year jail term in 1998 for being part of the infamous Magliana crime gang, which wielded enormous influence in Rome in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 56-year-old is also a former member of the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei), a far-right group that was involved in the 1980 bombing of Bologna railway station which left 85 people dead.
Of the 100 people under investigation in Rome, 37 were arrested with 29 detained in custody. The suspects include businessmen and local politicians.
