ROME - Prosecutors have requested the indictment of former 'post-Fascist' mayor of Rome Gianni Alemmano on charges of involvement in the massive Roma Capitale corruption organisation that looted millions of euros from the Campidoglio Palace, judicial officials said Friday.

  The request for Alemanno's indictment was made Thursday as the Mafia Capitale trial of 46 other politicians and criminals indicted in the scandal opened on charges of controlling much of the life of the Eternal City and the activities of municipal enterprises. Alemanno has strongly denied any wrongdoing and pledged to clear his name.

  Forty-six of the defendants in the case concerning alleged corruption and millions of euros allegedly stolen from the Campidoglio Palace were arrested in December last year. A one-eyed, neo-Fascist gangster, Massimo Carminati, is accused of launching and controlling a criminal network.

  The crime gang acted with impunity for many years and was not directly realted to the traditional activities of the mafia in southern Italy, such as drug trafficking and extortion. The gangsters in Rome conspired with local politicians in order to collect profits from measures for all local investments from creating migrant and refugees centers to rubbish collection.

  The politicians allegedly involved in the scandal are -- Luca Gramazio, the former head of Forza Italia parti during the reign of Silvio Berlusconi, Mirko Coratti - the former head of the center-left Democratic Party of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (PD) and Andrea Tassone, a member of the PD and former head of Ostia.

  For the security reasons, the most important members of the criminal group, including her boss Carminati, a former gangster from Banda della Magliana gang, and a former member of Terza Posizione, a vicious neo-fascist terrorist organization, not attended at the first hearing.

  Carminati has been held in a maximum security prison from almost a year. He was the one who had coordinate all illegal operations. The mafia invested money in chosen sectors to benefit from money owned by the city.

  Another key member of the gang was Salvatore Buzzi regarded as a "king" of cooperatives operating in the Italian capital. They were engaged in cleaning the city, green areas and maintenance of buildings allocated for centers for immigrants. He played a major role in corrupting local politicians and officials in order to get bribes and extortion money from lucrative contracts.

  According to the evidence, the crime gang controlled tenders worth hundreds of millions euros and stole a big part of them.

  Investigative wiretaps disclosed by the press reveal that the officials and their accomplices monopolized money spent on a centre for illegal migrants, asylum seekers and a municipal camp for Roma.

  The press also published an overheard statement by Carminati saying “Nowhere you earn as well as on immigrants and Roma. We closed the year with 40 million euros profit. Even drug trade does not bring such earnings.”

  Nevertheless Carminati after his arrest always denied to have any links to the Sicilian Mafia. It is expected that the trial will last until next summer.