Gualtieri, ‘if only one road is done badly, maximum severity’

(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 14 – “If it turns out that a single road has not been rebuilt to perfection, we will demand maximum severity against those who carried out the work and also against those who had the task of checking it”. If yesterday he expressed his “indignation”, today is the moment of rigor for the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri. No discount for anyone who may have committed irregularities or paid bribes for road maintenance contracts in the capital. Some of which, as emerged yesterday, also from the Jubilee package. A surprise that rained down on the Capitol, just on the eve of the mayor’s third report to the city. And it is today, from the stage of the Auditorium that Gualtieri thunders: “We will move forward with courage and determination: I thank the judiciary which will allow any irregularities to be punished”. Yesterday the mayor also announced the establishment of a technical commission of public works experts to verify the correct execution of the works. “No one – he reiterated – must dirty the relaunch of Rome”. “We must stamp out any incorrect attitude or behavior – the mayor added after today’s event at the Auditorium – We have set up an internal commission which will verify one by one not only the construction sites subject to the investigation, but also those of the companies subject of the investigation, to provide further elements and possibly prosecute those responsible, but also to have what was not done well redone”. Carpet checks by the Municipality, therefore, while the judiciary continues its work. During the searches carried out by the Guardia di Finanza, cash was found, 10-15 thousand euros, found in the homes of several suspects, including that of the entrepreneur Mirko Pellegrini who allegedly bribed the public officials of the Municipality to win the tenders contract. The investigators, during the investigation, acquired a large mass of documents which will now have to be analysed. Under the lens of those investigating there are contracts awarded in the last two years and, as confirmed by Campidoglio, also “assignments, all carried out through legal procedures, of some Jubilee interventions”. In total, around forty contracts awarded in the last two years are under scrutiny. (HANDLE).