Brindisi, the mayor resigns arrested: the counselors they go – The Republic

The bankrupt firm has managed the judiciary from politics: after arrest for alleged bribe from 30.000 euro pocketed from contractor waste, Mimmo Consales spring and resigns from ‘ post of mayor of Brindisi. Move expected as well as obliged, at this point, preceded by the mass resignation of all directors of the Messapian town who followed the advice, yesterday became imperative, the governor and secretary of the Democratic Party, Michele Emiliano, who for months asks the mayor’s head and new elections. The surrender was announced by the mayor-journalist through lawyer Massimo Manfreda defender, after the blitz scored from Digos by order of the prosecutor Giuseppe De Weddle and Savina Toscani, who unveiled the liason between corruptive Consales and Single srl. according to the theorem accusatory, the mayor would have pocketed by the company of Luke Screti a bribe of 30,000 Euros, to pay off the first six installments of a debt of 315 thousand euro with Equitalia, returning with the awarding of 176 million spread over 15 years of service management. A suitable exchange for all: for Consales, for accountant Lecce Massimo Vergara and the entrepreneur Luca Screti. The first two was served an arrest warrant under house arrest, the third in prison, signed by the investigating magistrate Giuseppe litchis. The disputed charges have continued to Consales corruption and bribery, fraud in public supplies and fraud for the other two.

The judicial scandal has also cornered the councilors who dithered and that instead, the second Emiliano what Sandra Antonica ( the citizen of the Democratic Party commissioner sent by the number one of dem in Puglia Brindisi) should and could have thought of that before. Immediately after the arrests councilors have resigned en masse, the proof that this is not a joke is in the notarial certificate by the notary Michele Errico at which the signatures were filed. A notary public chosen at random? Perhaps not, since some time talking about Errico as the next candidate for mayor of Brindisi. Whatever the name, in any case, the timing of the election campaign will be tight to, since it is possible to call an election for June. Meanwhile, the fate of the building, and the city will be governed by a prefect.

And while the policy is organized for after-Consales, the investigation takes a new direction and points to other positions occurs. Starting from the huge amount of documentation that police officers of Digos, led by the assistant chief Antonio Bocelli, seized Saturday. A bulky duffel bag was filled in the Town Hall, in the presence of Consales. Other documents – paper and computer – were seized at the home of Mayor-journalist, accountant and entrepreneur Massimo Vergara Screti Luca and Marcello Caramuscio, technical manager of the plant which is only investigated. Investigators want to understand – among other things – how it was possible that the mayor only a few days after the election has adopted an emergency order to start the business of the Single despite the disclosure anti-mafia of the Prefecture of Milan on Daneco , the company that had acted as a guarantor.
the biostabilizzatore the district Single Pandi also, according to the prosecutor advisors, had the cards in rules to work, having been built in 2001 and became obsolete . Plant finished impounded waste was treated in violation of industry standards and two machines were installed which increased the amount of material going to landfills, reducing the part to be transformed into Cdr. Thereby Single earned a free ride – 3.2 million in 2014 – while Brindisi choked in the trash, because the landfill Autigno (owned by the same Nubile and also seized as part of another investigation in May) could not to bear the weight of the waste. This trick would cost the coffers of the municipalities of Brindisi 500,000 Euros per year and citizens with a substantial increase in the ecotax, the most expensive in Italy according to the latest data produced by the National Observatory on Waste, inside the national Confcommercio.

in the monumental order for custody (over five hundred pages) signed by the investigating magistrate Joseph Healy, meanwhile check the name of the key witness that allowed investigators to close the circle without resorting to eavesdropping. prosecution cornerstone of the testimony of a former employee of Consales, the journalist mesagnese Cosimo Saracino, chief of staff office of the mayor appointed on a strictly fiduciary officer. They called him “the mayor”, Saracino and only to him Consales allowed to speak in his stead, to answer questions from colleagues and, apparently, also to take the money of the Single and take them home in a sealed envelope for then pour them to Equitalia. Saracino has suddenly back when, along with the real mayor, received the first notice of guarantee, in the investigation on sas News, the agency in charge of Consales owned by the same communication to manage the press review service common, but not before having sold their shares to another shareholder.
Just was able to be investigated, Saracino dumped the mayor and the post to the city Palace, taking the Prosecutor road and told the magistrates its truths. He has reconstructed the movements of cadeaux taken over by Nubile, made mention of an envelope full of cash, which would secure nelaa their homes, aware of the content. Not only. Saracino also knew that after two or three days would have to hand it to Leonardo Bonnet, one of the

Employees of Equitalia “forced” (always according to the prosecutor) by the director of Brindisi, Giuseppe Puzzovio, to make available the their current account to turn that cash into bank drafts useful to extinguish the damn debt Consales. Saracino said all this, and more, after having renounced the stipend of the mayor’s man of confidence. Today his name is not among those of persons under investigation.

Topics:

waste

toast mayor arrested

Brindisi province

common toast

waste management

bribes

Equitalia

Starring:

mimmo consales

marco DiNapoli

Michele Emilian