Former leftwing cooperatives boss Salvatore Buzzi was ordered back to jail Tuesday to serve the remaining four years of a lengthy prison term for the Mondo di Mezzo graft case.
A surveillance court rejected Buzzi's plea to be allowed to serve the time outside prison.
Buzzi, 69, was one of the two ringleaders in the sprawling Rome graft case dubbed Middle World after the demi-monde of white-collar criminals and delinquents that inhabited it.
The other ringleader in the notorious case is former rightist militant and ex-gangster Massimo Carminati, 67, currently free after serving 10 years for the massive political-business racketeering case in the Italian capital.
The case was initially dubbed 'Mafia Capitale' because prosecutors said the affair, in which a gang got its hands on city contracts worth millions, ranging from the running of Roma and migrant camps to waste management and maintaining green areas, regarded organized crime.
But the supreme Cassation Court quashed mafia convictions in 2019 and ordered an appeals court to reset jail terms in the case.
Carminati, a former rightist NAR militant and ex-member of the infamous Magliana Gang, has been released due to time served and good conduct.
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