“Eight million in EU money to hire politicians’ children and support football teams”: house arrest for former senator PD Papania

Funds regional e community expected training courses in Sicily which were used to take prosecutors as teacher e teachers children and relatives of local politicians. In this way, training centers have become “pretend”, while the money was used for financial election campaigns and amateur football teams. Just a month ago the former senator was on the Democratic Party Antonino Panania he ended up in prison in the Palermo DDA investigation for mafia political exchange votenow overshadowed by the double judicial review of it financial police of Palermoby the Marsala prosecutor’s office and the European supply (Eppo), the latter represented by the magistrates Gary Ferrara e Amelia Louise.

Papania is accused of being the promoter and “dominus” of the criminal association which – according to the charges – “illegally” obtained between 2014 and 2020 over 8.7 million euros of assets expected training coursesbut which would be used for bribe-taking politicians and they have some electoral support for the 2022 regional elections the former senator is also accused corruption, serious fraud, self-cleaning e listeningand 16 people were investigated.

The dominus – “Although it is formally foreign”, wrote the investigating judge Massimo Giuseppe Carleo in Eppo’s study order, Papania was the “effective dominus and the de facto manager of the training institution Sicilian Professional Training Center (CE.SI.FO.P.)”, he would also be interested in the association Thisadministered by his “private secretary”. Angelo Roccaas a candidate already in the regional elections of 2022 with theMovement for Independence of the old governor Raffaele Lombardo; and of theEconomic and Social Institute and Research (Ireland), managed by Mario Castelli. Rocca, who was only mentioned in the investigation documents for exchanging votes, is now being investigated in conjunction with Papania. The same accusations are shared by Castelli.

Institutional grants are – It is the old senator who asks about the courses that are organized there Marsala e Mazarabut also interviewed for selection of teachers and instructors. He even goes to Palermo to inspect the group’s new headquarters in the center of the city, which will however cost Rent 1,500 euros per monthfor about three hundred square meters. “Okay, but if it’s good and it’s worth it … and we take it and we don’t talk about it anymore,” said Papania. And if the CV of the son of the politician to be hired is weak, for the former senator it is not a problem: “We will take care of him.” Still a “dominus”, he is interested in the Durc method for the groups Cesifop, Ires and Tai, and according to the investigators, he would have “regularly used the artifice of payment of the grant debt in installments“, not “with respect” thereafter, “except (sometimes) by paying the first installment”. “As for Cefisop, just do it trust eh… and pay the first installment to get the Durc”, says Papania in an interlinked conversation with one of his colleagues.

Money and corruption – The flow of money from public funds, as revealed in a joint investigation by prosecutors Marsala and Eppo, would be used to carry out a serious political buying campaign. The Cesipops e the Thai societywe read in the documents, used “as is true pool of positions provided to attract politicians from the Trapani region to its ranks with a view to future support in regional political consultations in September 2022 and at least to increase the political weight of the Via Movement “. Papania, Rocca’s right-hand man and his colleague Ignazio Chianettaand all of them ended up under house arrest, working in “the politics of Alcamo, Trapani and Marsala, with regional influences within the political movement Via (Values, Commitment, Action)”, allegedly polluting “political reporters co-opted into the movement in return jobs”, in many cases also falsifying candidates’ CVs.

The other suspects – Three Marsala city councilors ended up accused: Michele Maurizio Accardi (residence ban) for having accepted a job in a retirement home for his daughter Sara (also under investigation); Pellegrino Guglielmo Ferrantelli (residence ban), formerly of Fratelli d’Italia, for his nephew Antonio Peppino free (unchecked) employed by Tai; And Vanessa Titone (residence ban) which sees his son Antonio Parrinello (unexamined) elected as a teacher in Cesifop. The senator’s colleague and the manager of the institution also contributed to this program, Manfredi Vitelloended up under house arrest. He adds to them Vincenzo Monteleone (residence ban), president of the town council of Custonaci, for hiring his son Gianni Monteleone (not under investigation) as a teacher in Cesifop; and Castelvetrano town councilor, Antonio Giancana (residence ban), also employed as a teacher in the same institution. Sums of money would also be used to support non-professional clubs Mazara football (6100 euros) it Peas 2 (12 thousand euros).