Former Sicilian Administrative Justice Council judge Giuseppe Mineo has been arrested for corruption. The arrest was ordered by the Messina investigating judge at the request of the Prosecutor's Office headed by Maurizio de Lucia.
Mineo was allegedly interested in having the companies “Open Land Srl” and “AM Group Srl”, controlled by the Frontino builders, benefit from the appeals they had filed against the Municipality and the Superintendency of Syracuse. The judge was supposed to intervene because the compensation for damages that the Municipality and the Superintendency owed to the two companies was overestimated. Both the Open Land and Am Group cases emerged in the investigation by the Messina Prosecutor's Office which, in February, led to the imprisonment of, among others, the former Syracuse prosecutor Giancarlo Longo and the lawyers Piero Amara and Giuseppe Calafiore, both linked to the Frontinos. In exchange for his interest in the case, of which Mineo, a university professor appointed to the CGA on behalf of the former Sicilian governor Raffaele Lombardo, was also the reporting judge, he allegedly asked for money for a friend: the former president of the Region Giuseppe Drago, who later died in 2016.
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