Judge rejects request to shelve case against former Monte dei Paschi executives - sources

A Milan judge has rejected a request to shelve a case against former top executives at Monte dei Paschi di Sienaas part of an investigation for alleged market rigging and false accounting, judicial sources said on Friday.Prosecutors in Milan, where the case was transferred in July because of jurisdiction over market manipulation crimes, in September asked for the case against Monte dei Paschi's former Chairman Alessandro Profumo and Chief Executive Fabrizio Viola to be shelved.