Chiara Colosimo, the iron melonian president of the Anti-Mafia Commission, swears that nothing will be left to chance. “Our objective is to understand whether beyond what has already emerged, there is another type of infiltration, even deeper, and whether politics is entirely to blame, in the sense that the majority and opposition pretended not to see.”
He talks about Bari, its bonsai version of tangentopoli that has been unleashed in recent weeks and the work that awaits the parliamentarians of his commission, who among other things sooner or later will listen to both the mayor of Bari Antonio Decaro and the governor of Puglia Michele Emiliano. Meanwhile, the commission has already received at least two files from the Bari prosecutor’s office: the documents of the «Internal Code» investigation (130 arrests including the municipal councilor Maria Carmen Lorusso) and those of the investigation which involved (and soon closed) Decaro himself , brought up by the repentant Nicola De Santis, former driver at Amtab, who had told investigators of an alleged meeting between the mayor of Bari and Massimo Parisi, brother of the boss Savino. De Santis’ statements, however, never found any confirmation of any kind and for this reason Decaro was quickly dismissed.
In all of this, in Bari, the investigations into business transactions and electoral favors continue: yesterday the Pisicchio brothers paraded before judge Ilaria Casu, who last week had ordered house arrest for them for the accusation of having piloted regional financing to some businesses in exchange for hiring family members and political activists, all through fake surety policies provided by a self-styled Monopoly broker, Cosimo Napoletano.
In the morning, Enzo Pisicchio made use of the right not to respond, while his brother Alfonsino allowed himself to be questioned and declared himself unrelated to the disputed facts. According to the Bari prosecutor’s office, Alfonsino Pisicchio, when he was regional councilor, allegedly altered a 5 million tender announced by the Municipality for the collection of taxes in favor of the entrepreneur Giovanni Riefoli (also under house arrest) and then received in exchange 50 thousand euros and some hiring.
To Judge Casu, Pisicchio said that he had “information on the outcome of the tender” and that he had then “only taken care to indicate some individuals who needed employment, to check if there was the possibility that they would undergo an information interview” in order to obtain a job “with the company that won the tender”. In the next few days, the Pisicchio brothers’ lawyers will ask for the house arrest to be revoked, also considering the fact that we are talking about stories that took place several years ago, that is, between 2016 and 2019.
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