Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has been interviewed by the public prosecutor in Naples over links to the local mafia, known as the Camorra.

Balotelli travelled back to Italy with the Napoli team in the early hours of yesterday morning following Wednesday night’s Champions League clash at the Etihad Stadium.

Yesterday at 15.30 local time he went to the Public Prosecutor’s office to discuss a trip he took around a Camorra stronghold in Naples called Scampia.

Balotelli is said to have been accompanied on his visit, in June last year, by suspected Camorra leader Marco Iorio, who has been arrested for money laundering, amongst others.

The 21-year-old forward previously claimed he did not know who Iorio was. “I didn’t know who those people were, that day in Naples there were always many people around me,” he said.

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