MILAN (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors are investigating former Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti over allegations he took a 2.4 million-euro (1.8 million pounds) bribe to ease the way for an acquisition by aerospace and defence group Finmeccanica in 2008.
Justice system officials said investigators believed the state-controlled company paid the bribes as consulting fees while Tremonti was a minister so that he would drop his opposition to the $5.2 billion takeover of U.S. defence contractor DRS Technologies.
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