Over 300 pages of ordinance. More than 1000 size request sheets. This is the first substantial correspondence relating to the investigation “Low profile” coordinated by District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor of Catanzaro led by Nicola Gratteri and led by Dia.
But to reveal the plans of a certain part of entrepreneurship (also interested in the management of cultural structures in the city), finance, world of professions, as far as the capital is concerned, are the 54 pages of “Following precautionary request” signed by the deputy prosecutors of the Republic Paolo Sirleo and Veronica Calcagno, signed by the same prosecutor Gratteri, filed in July 2020 and received on December 17, 2020.
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From fitness to art, there were many and different activities for which entrepreneurs (whose names will not be given because they were not investigated in the procedure ed) would have tried to access, even if they did not have the title and requisitei, to the financing announcementsi by Invitalia.
The false donation of a work of art to circumvent the constraints of the Invitalia notice on culture
The magistrates write under the paragraph “Use of invoices for non-existent transactions” : “Nelle conversations captured results the interest of some suspects and other people close to them the participation in a call for proposals called “Cultura Crea” launched by Invitalia concerning culture, in which funding is foreseen. It was explained to the artist (omitted) the I plan to open with the (omitted) a sculpture park in the area between Catanzaro Lido and Crotone. The idea was to have a sculpture delivered on loan for three years, also involving other artists, with the aim of selling the work of considerable size to a person of convenience, who in turn would have to resell the sculpture to a specific company. created for the management of the park. The proceeds from the work sold to the wooden head should return behind a false donation in the availability of the protagonists and with that sum of money the park created on land purchased with the money of the tender would be managed. The fake buyer would then sell the work to the company that would manage the park and at that moment the artist would be paid who should only have the patience to commit his creation to vision for three years at the park upon payment of an entrance ticket. .
The call provides for funding of up to 300,000 euros for the purchase of works, a sum that through a stratagem, it would be functional to the purchase and construction of the park”.
Young people used as “front names” to access funding using their requirements
UA similar mechanism was put in place for another type of business. The opening of a gym, the protagonists are always the same, in addition of course to professionals in the sector. This time unsuspecting young people who should have been involved would be involvedo “put at the service of the project” their requirements which were those foreseen by the announcement.
Recipient of the loan request always I.nvitalia, which, however, would have detected, during the preliminary phase, an anomaly on a power of attorney issued by one of the young people involved in the request to whoever was actually dealing with the operation. From the bureaucratic point of view, the anomaly would have been overcome with a new request, but, in the meantime, one of the people involved would have expressed the intention to leave the company established to access public funds.
The former municipal councilor indicated by the interlocutors as “Recycler on behalf of the clans of Isola”
Salways in the 54 pages then, among the various conversations there is also that between one of the suspects and his “collaborator” who, on the sale of a property to a former municipal councilor of Catanzaro, says “Do not accept cash payments because he is a launderer on behalf of the Isola gangs”. The suspect showed his collaborator all his amazement at the fact that “these characters continued to act undisturbed without attracting the attention of the judiciary”. “The comments made by the interlocutors – the magistrates still write – show how they knew well in which environments the characters they mentioned gravitate “
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