Italian police have searched the house of Rome’s ex-mayor and arrested 37 people in a major anti-Mafia operation.<br /><br /> Gianni Alemanno was a minister for agriculture in Silvio Berlusconi’s government between 2001 and 2006, and the capital’s mayor from 2008 until 2013.<br /><br /> “I have always fought Mafia and criminal organisations, openly and without clemency. I will show that I am completely uninvolved,” Alemanno said in a statement.<br /><br /> Those detained, including entrepreneurs and local politicians, are reportedly among 100 people suspected of corruption and fraud.<br /><br /> The presumed head of the group, Massimo Carminati, is a former member of the NAR (the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei), an outlawed far-right organisation active in the late 1970s.
