The interrogation before the investigating judge Angela Paola De Santis of the former regional councilor Alfonsino Pisicchio, who has been under house arrest since last week together with his brother Enzo on charges of corruption in relation to alleged crimes in the assignment, lasted just under two hours. of a tax collection contract for the Municipality of Bari. “My client answered all the questions by clarifying his position – explained the lawyer Salvatore D’Aluiso – he underlined his total non-involvement regarding alleged illicit actions in the completion of the race. Pisicchio merely limited himself, after having received news that the contract had been awarded, to indicating some individuals who needed to have a job so that they could attend an interview for the purposes of hiring. They were people he knew regardless of the electoral relationship. In the next few days we will ask for the measure to be revoked.”
His brother Enzo, however, exercised the right not to respond, waiting to subsequently read all the elements contested by the prosecution. “We will ask to be heard by the public prosecutor – declared the lawyer Francesco Paolo Sisto, who defends the suspect together with professor Vito Mormando – and we will subsequently make a request to revoke the measure, especially since four years have passed since the searches”. The entrepreneur Giovanni Riefoli also remained silent. However, the municipal official Francesco Catanese spoke for more than two hours, accused of having awarded the contract to the entrepreneur Giovanni Riefoli in exchange for the hiring of his wife. The suspect offered his version of events, refuting the reconstruction offered by the investigators, and answered all the questions posed by the investigating judge and the public prosecutor.
