Seventy people, many of them members of the police force, (State Police, Financial Police, Penitentiary Police and Fire Brigade) they are being investigated in the inquiry launched by the L'Aquila Prosecutor's Office into rigged competitions.
According to the prosecution, they rigged the competitions by substituting people.
From the investigations, conducted by the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of L'Aquila, led by Colonel Aurelio Soldano, former commander of the Ascoli Piceno and Sulmona companies and coordinated by the public prosecutor Stefano Gallo, two criminal gangs – the first based in the Naples area and the other in the Caserta area – falsified documents and impersonated real candidates to take the competitive exams, in exchange for the sum of 10 thousand euros for each candidate.
According to the prosecution, this conduct would have allowed the hiring of several candidates who served in different law enforcement agencies: State Police, Financial Police, Penitentiary Police and Fire Brigade.
The public prosecutor had requested the application of precautionary measures, both prison and mandatory, but the investigating judge of the Court of L'Aquila, Gwendolyn Buccella, had rejected the request, considering, on the one hand, the legal qualification of the fact not acceptable, and, on the other, the lack of actuality and concreteness of the danger of repetition of the contested crimes, as well as the lack of urgency reasons for ordering the precautionary measures, no danger of alteration of the results of other competitions having been highlighted. The Prosecutor's Office then presented an appeal to the Review.
With an order filed on 19 May 2022, the Review Court of L'Aquila rejected the appeal filed by the Public Prosecutor against the rejection - by the GIP at the Court of L'Aquila - of the request for the application of mandatory and prison precautionary measures against numerous defendants mainly resident in Campania, approximately 70, including Luigi Favella, Enrico De Rosa, D'Elia Alfredo, assisted by theAttorney Vincenzo Esposito, of the Nola Forum.
The Court of Appeal, accepting the defense argument, excluded the jurisdiction of the Aquiliana AG in favor of the Court of North Naples, Torre Annunziata and Rome, ordering, on the merits, the rejection of the request for the application of precautionary measures for all the defendants.
In particular, the Court of Appeal highlighted that the investigations and wiretaps did not reveal any elements suitable to consider any persistent associative structure or operations aimed at altering the outcome of public selections, since the preparation of candidates to face the competitive exams is in itself a lawful and widespread practice.
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Article published on 2 June 2022 - 08:13
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