The vacuum-packed packages of cash found by the Guardia di Finanza at Salvatore Abbate's home amount to well over 4 million euros, and were packed into bags and stored in the cellar.
The arrested businessman is accused of corruption and waste trafficking by the Naples Prosecutor's Office, which has delegated to the Guardia di Finanza and the State Police the 17 arrests (3 in prison and 14 under house arrest) and two 6-month suspensions from public office. It took many hours to finish counting the huge sum that supports the broad evidentiary framework regarding the crimes of money laundering and reinvestment that emerged from the pages of the order.
The entrepreneur also had at his disposal representatives of the police force who, in exchange for money, protected him by informing him about the investigations and acted almost as consultants. The crimes hypothesized by the investigators are corruption and aiding and abetting. The suspects are called Vittorio Porcini, deputy commissioner in service at the Neapolitan police station of Ponticelli (house arrest) and his colleagues Domenico Boenzi and Sabatino Domenico, who was given a six-month suspension from exercising public function. Significant sums were also found by the financial police at the homes of other individuals involved in the investigation coordinated by the prosecutors Ivana Fulco and Henry John Woodcock.
Between 2017 and 2018, tons of waste that should have been disposed of in landfills ended up in the sea. And this, according to the Naples prosecutor's office, was also due to contracts obtained in exchange for bribes paid to the top management of Sma Campania at the time, the company 100% controlled by the Campania Region that deals, among other things, with environmental remediation and reclamation. The technique was simple: direct assignment of contracts, with "extreme urgency" and therefore without going through public procurement. Work that always ended up with the same companies that reported, according to the prosecution, to Salvatore Abbate, known as 'totore a' cachera'.
Abbate is defined by the informants as an element for the Sarno, Mazzarella, Cuccaro and De Micco clans. For his business he 'used' three policemen who would have informed him in exchange for money. Luciano Passariello, former president of the Campania Region Commission of Inquiry was for the prosecutor and the investigating judge "a controller who did not control". Lorenzo Di Domenico, general director "pro tempore" of Sma, is accused of having accepted the promise of a bribe of 7% of the agreed amount for the undue assignment with emergency procedures of the disposal of 10 thousand tons of sludge in the purification plants of Naples North, Marcianise, Succivo, and Regi Lagni, municipalities between Naples and Caserta. Also under house arrest are Luigi Riccardi, who was the coordinator of the purification plants of Sma Campania, director of the purification plant of Naples East and at the time of the facts also of the purification plant of Marcianise, in the province of Caserta, for his son Vincenzo, for Errico Foglia, director director of the purification plant of Acerra, at the time of the facts managed by Sma. Between February and May 2018, Riccardi and Foglia arranged the disposal of 6 thousand tons of sludge that will end up in the sea.
Article published on 24 February 2021 - 21:43
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