Italy police search Turin Olympic committee offices

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s financial police are searching
the offices of Turin’s Olympic committee as part of a probe
into consultancy contracts, sources close to the investigation
said on Friday.

Turin prosecutors are probing contracts that the organizing
committee TOROC has signed with consultants on different
projects, the sources said.

Turin is hosting the Winter Olympics from February 10-26.

Police had no immediate comment and the TOROC declined to
comment.

The sources said no-one had been placed under
investigation, and prosecutors had not defined what kind of
crimes they were looking for. The sources said the probe
examined whether the contracts were regular.

Financial police have also gone to the offices of 10 people
and companies that acted as consultants, confiscating
contracts, the sources added.