Arzano. Dissolutions for Camorra and unused assets: the municipal administration revokes the assignment to the Associazione dal Basso.
The relevant councillor, Giuseppe Vitagliano, after having started the procedures for revoking the assignment of the confiscated assets to the associations “Dal Basso” (in the photo) and “Donna Matilde Serao”, has made the procedures official with the request for the delivery of the keys deposited by the association today.
In continuation of the resolution of the City Council of 12 April, on the proposal of the Councillor with responsibility for the management of "Confiscated Assets" Joseph Vitagliano, with which the Municipality withdrew from the SOLE Consortium with the unanimous votes of the entire majority and the abstention of a part of the opposition and the votes against of the former exponents of theEsposito administration, the municipal body has finally materialized the taking of possession of the assets after years.
An issue, that of the Consortium, which dates back to 2007 when the administration led at the time by Nicholas De Mare he joined the organization whose purpose was to manage assets confiscated from criminals.
As a result of the adhesion arranged by the council resolution of 27 February 2014, theFuschino administration (later dissolved due to Camorra) decided to grant the Consorzio SOLE the enjoyment of the property on Corso S. D'Amato for a period of 5 years; consequently, the Consorzio SOLE granted the same property to the association “Dal Basso” for nine years.
Over time, the matter was also the subject of an investigation by the prefecture, which identified several inconsistencies in the management of the assets, also reporting the matter to the Ministry of the Interior. With the final act, the municipal administration intended to send a strong signal in the sign of discontinuity with the past with the aim of legitimately regaining possession of its confiscated assets.
Previous assignments which, according to what is reported in the Presidential Decree published in the Official Journal in 2019, had seen almost all the assets confiscated from the Camorra associations owned by a leading figure of the Licciardi clan.
The very assignment, the subsequent opening and the management of some of these structures had attracted the attention of the Prosecutor's Office.
The renovation works that should have started within 60 days of the assignment of the assets with the filing of an executive project for adaptation to the Planning and Land Management sector with the subsequent investigation and approval of the municipal council ended up in the crosshairs of the municipal controls requested by the councilor.
The obligation to transmit the list of members, the balance sheets, the communication of the activities carried out and the resulting information material, the insurance policy, the names of administrators, volunteers and personnel employed in any capacity in the activities of the associations. Not to mention the traceability of the funds used and the Anti-Mafia certificate of the contractors eventually assigned to the works. But since the assignment there would have been very few events or certifications that documented the actual use.
Louis Vanacore
Article published on May 10, 2022 - 14:08 pm
