(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 7 - The prosecutor who helped place
Liguria Governor Giovanni Toti under house arrest in a graft
probe Tuesday denied it was a case of "clockwork justice" aimed
at denting the centre right's prospects in the upcoming European
elections.
"There can be no talk of a clockwork probe seeing as how our
request (for house arrest) dates back five months, and precisely
to December 27," Nicola Piacente told reporters outside the
palace of justice in Genoa. (ANSA).