It will start on July 9th at the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Caserta) the trial against thirteen people, including the mayor of Caserta Carlo Marino, the mayor of Curti Antonio Raiano and the waste entrepreneur Carlo Savoia.
They are accused of bid-rigging and waste trafficking in relation to alleged rigged contracts in the waste collection sector announced by municipalities in the provinces of Caserta and Naples. The Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) conducted the investigation and will support the accusation in court.
Carlo Savoia, considered close to the Casalesi clan by the DDA, is considered the fulcrum of the investigation. Also appearing at the trial will be the commander of the Municipal Police of Curti Iginio Faiella, the entrepreneur Angelo Egisto of the waste company Lea, the former official of the Municipality of Caserta Giuseppe D'Auria and the former municipal manager Marcello Iovino.
The referral to trial was ordered by the Neapolitan preliminary hearing judge Anna Tirone on December 21, while seven defendants, including Michele Oliviero and Andrea Guadagno della Bema, were acquitted with an abbreviated trial. The others acquitted are the director of the Municipality of Lusciano Edoardo Cotugno, the former councilor of Aversa Paolo Galluccio, Ernesto Scamardella, Pasquale Vitale and Salvatore Merola.
The trial, initially scheduled to take place in Naples, was transferred to the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere after the judges of the seventh criminal section of Naples declared themselves incompetent due to territory on April 2.
The investigation by the DDA and the Carabinieri of the Ecological Operations Unit (Noe), launched in 2018, led to six arrests on December 21, 2021. Magistrates Fabrizio Vanorio and Maurizio Giordano identified at least 44 tenders in the urban solid waste sector, issued by various municipalities in the provinces of Caserta, Naples, Salerno, Benevento, Latina and Potenza, which were allegedly manipulated by Carlo Savoia and his collaborators with the complicity of some mayors and public officials.
Article published on May 16, 2024 - 15:07 pm
