Campania, vote trading: regional councilor Mocerino investigated

Campania, vote trading: regional councilor Mocerino investigated. 10 thousand euros earmarked for buying and selling for the 2020 regional elections.

The regional councilor of Campania also appears Carmine Mocerino, 53 years (De Luca Group President), among the eight people registered in the register of suspects by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office as part of an investigation into an alleged Trade of votes which, according to investigators, would have occurred during the last regional elections on 20 and 21 September 2020, in Caravit fractionof the Vesuvian municipality of cercola.

Along with Mocerino, several individuals considered by the DDA linked to organised crime: among these Pasquale Salvatore Ronza, 33 years old, nicknamed “calimero”, and Mario Chiummariello, 34 years old, nicknamed “guappariello”, for whom pre-trial detention in prison was ordered.

Both are accused of having beaten one of the eight suspects, Ciro Needs, 47 years old, nicknamed “o' cecoff”, who was recruiting votes on behalf of Mocerino in front of a polling station in Cercola: he was found guilty of not having paid a thousand euros as a bribe to the De Luca Bossa Minichini clan of the neighborhood Ponticelli , for the buying and selling of preferences.

An activity for which he had been provided with 10 thousand euros, according to investigators. The Carabinieri arrested Chiummariello, while Ronza is wanted.

The two, as reconstructed by the DDA, are accused of having beaten, on September 21, 2020 in the home of Rosario Rolletta, also under investigation, Ciro Bisogni, who, according to the clan, did not pay a thousand euros as a bribe to the De Luca Bossa-Minichini family for the buying and selling of votes.

“He had behaved badly with the system because he had asked and bought votes from Caravita, without asking for authorization from Ponticelli's system and without having paid any bribe”, says Rollett, known as friariello, who revealed the alleged affair to the prosecutors, as a repentant.

From different interception it emerges that the vote buying and selling was documented through videos that have not been found. In one of the numerous wiretaps attached to the order with which the judge orders the prison for Ronza and Chiummariello, the interlocutors give each other the names of those who filmed the videos. “He says they sent for Tony… and he told him that Mocerino had stolen 10 thousand euros”, they say in a conversation in September 2020.

In addition to Mocerino, the municipal councilor of Cercola is also under investigation for vote buying Giuseppe Romano, believed to be Mocerino's local contact and the one who allegedly delivered the 10 thousand euros from the regional councilor to Ciro Bisogni; Joseph Castiellor, in the role of intermediary between Mocerino and Romano also in relation to the delivery of the money and, finally, Ciro Bisogni and Pasquale Ariosto, accused of having offered and given money to voters in front of the polling station.

The investigation also includes the beating (never reported) suffered by Bisogni himself, on 21 September 2020, in the home of the suspect Rosario Rolletta, 36 years old, known as “friariello” (collaborator of justice) at the hands of some exponents of the Neapolitan clan of De Luca Bossa-Minichini who believed him responsible for having bought votes without paying a fee “to the local system”.

From some wiretaps contained in the order of the investigating judge of Naples it also emerges that the buying and selling of votes was documented through videos. In that electoral round, always according to the investigators, Bisogni was not the only one to deal with the buying and selling of votes in the polling station of via Aldo Moro in Caravita, in the municipality of Cercola, although he was the only one to suffer a beating because “he had behaved badly towards the system (the Camorra, ed.)”, and why “he had asked for and bought votes (in the Caravita district, ed.), without asking for authorization from the Ponticelli system (the Camorra of the Ponticelli district of Naples, i.e. the De Luca Bossa-Minichini clan, ed.) and without having paid any bribes”.

In one of the numerous wiretaps attached to the order with which the judge orders the prison sentences for Ronza (still wanted) and Chiummariello, the interlocutors give the names of the person who filmed the videos (Chiummariello) and also of one of the individuals involved in the sale (not investigated in this proceeding), who was also called to report (“he says that they sent for Tony… and he told him that Mocerino had pocketed 10 thousand euros…”).