Conclusion of Catania investigation investigation, Sammartino can be there

(ANSA) – CATANIA, JUNE 16 – The discover of conclusion of the preliminary investigations was issued by the Catania Prosecutor’s Workplace towards 29 suspects within the Pandora investigation, channeled into investigations by the Carabinieri, into alleged infiltrations of organized crime and episodes of corruption to the Municipality of Tremestieri Etneo. The information is reported by the newspaper La Sicilia. Among the many recipients of the measure there may be additionally the chief of the League in Sicily, Luca Sammartino who, below investigation for 2 alleged instances of corruption, resigned as vice-president of the Sicilian Area and as councilor for Agriculture on 17 April after being suspended from public capabilities by the investigating choose. His lawyer, Carmelo Peluso, has appealed towards the measure: the listening to shall be held on June twenty sixth. Two of the 29 suspects who obtained the discover of conclusion of the investigation are in jail: the previous mayor of Tremestieri Santi Rando and Pietro Alfio Cosentino, who’re below investigation for a political-mafia trade vote for the 2015 native elections. Amongst these below investigation are additionally two exponents of distinguished figures of Cosa Nostra: Francesco Santapaola and Vito Romeo, the latter Cosentino’s brother-in-law. The investigation additionally goals to make clear contracts and assignments of works to the Municipality, and on this entrance the Prefecture of Catania has turned on an extra highlight by offering inspection entry to the native authority. Sammartino has at all times contested the accusations, expressing “full confidence within the judiciary”. There are two alleged instances of corruption contested by the Prosecutor’s Workplace. The primary is to have favored the proprietor of a pharmacy in Tremestieri Etneo by committing himself to stopping considered one of his opponents from opening. In trade he would have obtained electoral help for the candidate for the European elections that he supported in 2019 for the Democratic Celebration, Caterina Chinnici, later elected and now in Forza Italia, completely unrelated to the investigation. The second case considerations two carabinieri from the judicial police unit of the Prosecutor’s Workplace, one on obligation and the opposite on go away, who allegedly offered data on any investigations towards him and cleared his secretariat of any bugs. The discover of conclusion of the investigation was signed by the deputy prosecutors Rocco Liguori, Fabio Saponara and Santo Distefano and endorsed by the deputy prosecutor Francesco Puleio and the performing prosecutor Agata Santonocito. (HANDLE).