Rome ex-mayor Alemanno probed in Italy Mafia case

Rome police are investigating suspected fraud in local government contracts

Italian police have made 37 arrests and searched the home of Rome's former mayor Gianni Alemanno in a major anti-Mafia operation.

Police seized documents at local government offices in the capital Rome and surrounding Lazio region.

Mr Alemanno, a former right-wing ally of ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is among 100 suspects in the corruption investigation, Italian media report.

Fraud and money-laundering is suspected in connection with public works.

Police also seized assets worth 200m euros (£159m; $258m) in the operation.

Among those arrested on Tuesday was Massimo Carminati, a former member of an outlawed far-right group called NAR (the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei).

NAR members were implicated in the notorious bombing of Bologna train station in 1980, which killed 85 people.