Tenders and corruption in Piedimonte Matese: the number of people under investigation now rises to 12, including entrepreneurs and administrators
Piedimonte Matese. Yesterday morning the Carabinieri of the Caserta Investigative Unit and the tax police unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Caserta showed up at the Town Hall to carry out searches in some municipal offices. There are four entrepreneurs involved in the investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere into the town hall of the Matese capital. The fourth entrepreneur registered in the register of suspects is Mario Rosario Zoccolillo. His name joins the entrepreneurs Vittorio Civitillo, Giovanni Malinconico (from Ailano) and Ruggiero Di Pietro.
The investigation involves, for now, twelve people in total, including the highest levels of the last municipal administration: the former mayor Luigi Di Lorenzo, his deputy Ivan Filetti and the councilors David Raucci and Loreta Di Marco. Also involved in the same investigation are Bruno Pagliaro (former mayor of Dragoni) and Antonio Montone, former mayor of Castello del Matese, current member of the council of the same municipality; the former municipal technician Vincenzo Menditto (employee of the ASL of Caserta), the former president of the council of Piedimonte Matese Gianlugi Santillo. They are accused to varying degrees - at this stage of the investigation - of criminal association, bid-rigging, corruption and abuse of office.
The other morning the investigation, which is based on facts from 2019 and 2020, was revealed with a massive blitz by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, which began at dawn when dozens of soldiers from the Caserta investigative unit showed up at the door of some of the suspects at the same time. The Carabinieri - coordinated by prosecutors Gerarda Cozzolino and Chiara Esposito - allegedly seized cell phones, documents, personal computers and other IT equipment. The investigation, among other things, seeks to shed light on a hypothesis of corruption and rigged tenders.
Article published on 25 February 2021 - 20:41
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