Caserta ASL investigation: bribes also for some work at the Schiavone villa “Scarface”
The villa confiscated from Walter Schiavone, brother of the boss Francesco Schiavone, known as “Sandokan”, built to resemble the one in the film “Scarface” with Al Pacino, also appears in the list of properties for which work was allegedly carried out in exchange for bribes.
The technique used was to split the funds, for hundreds of thousands of euros, in order to divide it into many jobs, of value lower than the community threshold, to assign them directly to entrepreneurs in exchange for bribes. The circumstance emerges from the investigation of the Prosecutor's Office of Naples North that led to 12 arrests of officials and employees of the ASL.
The villa in the style of Toni Montana, Cuban gangster from Brian De Palma's film, was the symbol of the Casalesi clan's power in the 90s, then it was confiscated by the State to become a monument to rediscovered legality, and transformed into a day center for mental health of the ASL. And it was in this new guise that it ended up in the folds of the investigation into the Department of Mental Health (DSM) of the ASL of Caserta.
The Public Prosecutor's Office and the NAS Carabinieri have in fact discovered that the former director of the DSM Luigi Carrizzone (arrested), with the complicity of the ASL employees who were in charge of the contracts - the arrested Francesco Della Ventura and Pasquale Sannino - would have broken up a contract of over 150 thousand euros into small jobs under the community threshold of 40 thousand euros, in order to assign them directly, without a tender, to the entrepreneurs who paid the bribes, such as the builder Antonio Papa (arrested).
A procedure that was used every time the DSM had to contract out work for its own facilities.
Article published on 22 February 2021 - 20:14
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