Residence ban and suspension respectively for a former municipal councilor of Giugliano and a municipal employee of Marano, the investigation into tenders for waste management in the two municipalities of the Neapolitan area.
The mayor of Giugliano Nicola Pirozzi and the former mayor Antonio Poziello
Two precautionary measures, one of a ban on residence in the municipality of Naples and the other of suspension from public offices, were carried out today, 9 January, against Luigi Grimaldiformer councilor for the environment of the municipality of Giugliano in Campania, and of Domenico Abbatielloemployee of the Municipality of Marano, accused of bid rigging and corruption. The two are under investigation in the investigation by the Naples North Prosecutor’s Office into an alleged suspect rigged procurement system in the waste management sector which would have involved the administrations of the two municipalities in the Neapolitan area.
They were arranged at the same time seven preventive seizures, for a total of approximately 200 thousand eurosagainst as many suspects, corresponding to the sums that according to the investigators they would have perceived as corruption. The current mayor of Giugliano in Campania, Nicola Pirozzi, and his predecessor, Antonio Poziello, are investigated in the same investigation: the Prosecutor’s Office requested house arrest for them but the investigating judge rejected it as he did not recognize any precautionary needs.
The rigged procurement system
The investigations started in 2018 and continued for approximately 3 years. According to the reconstruction of the investigators, there was a “system” made up of employees and administrators of Marano and Giugliano who, with the complicity of some entrepreneurs and fixers, had manipulated the awarding of contracts in the context of the assignment of the integrated waste collection service .
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The investigation started from the municipality of Marano and was then extended to that of Giugliano where, among the suspicious tenders, it was identified the one worth 122 million euros (seven-year period 2020-2027); the former mayor of Giugliano and the then Superintendent of Public Works of Naples were allegedly involved in this, both recipients of a preventive seizure of 45 thousand euros each.
During the investigative activities, 60 thousand euros and a valuable watch have already been seized, which were allegedly promised to the former municipal councilor to favor an entrepreneur, and around 350 thousand euros, according to the investigators, the result of bribes intended for managers in the sector and kept elsewhere .
House arrest rejected for Pirozzi and Poziello
Nicola Pirozzi and Antonio Poziello, respectively current and former mayor of Giugliano in Campania, are being investigated as part of the same investigation. The Prosecutor’s Office had called for house arrest for them but the investigating judge of North Naples rejected the requests; we need to wait if the Prosecutor’s Office will appeal to the Review Court.
Regarding Poziello, the investigating judge denied the arrests as he did not recognize precautionary needs such as to make a precautionary measure necessary: he currently does not hold any political office and, furthermore, the retirement of the administrator, and the change of management of the company involved, i.e. the people with whom Poziello interfaced, make the risk of repeating the crime non-configurable.
The positions of the two suspects are diversified. Pirozzi also suspended himself from the Democratic Party two months ago, when he learned that he was being investigated (when preventive interrogations were scheduled before the investigating judge as a result of the Nordio reform) while Poziello resigned from his role as city councilor.
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