Catania, the investigation into the vice president of the Region Sammartino, hunting for his moles at the courthouse. “Talk to your friend”

CATANIA – “Your friend”, the regional deputy called him Luca Sammartino speaking with Marshal Antonino Cunsolo. The non-commissioned officer, former member of the judicial police section of the prosecutor’s office, was retired, but still had many contacts, this seems to emerge from the interceptions of the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Catania which triggered the suspension for Sammartino from all his positions, those the most important are the councilor for agriculture and the vice president of the Schifani council. The investigating judge writes Carla Aurora Valenti in the precautionary custody order: “The regional deputy continued to take advantage of Cunsolo’s knowledge, asking him for information regarding a criminal case against him in relation to which Cunsolo had already said that he had interested an unidentified friend, who would have provided the requested information.”

Cunsolo, currently under investigation at large for complicity in corruption, was the intermediary with another unfaithful non-commissioned officer, the officer Antonino Battiato, serving in the judicial police section of the Etna prosecutor’s office. “Antoniuzzo, a courtesy, we should do the usual work”, Cunsolo said on the phone. “Still in there?” asked Battiato. Answer: Yes, always there, because she was closed”. They were referring to Sammartino’s political secretariat in Catania, which is located in via Gabriele D’Annunzio 39/A.

Cunsolo also telephoned Sammartino’s secretary to agree on the time and above all to ask that no one be at the office during the clean-up operations. It was September 25, 2019. “Thank you, good morning, how are you?” retired Marshal Antonino Cunsolo began. “Let’s deal with this four nonsense here at home. A courtesy, today of course there is no secretariat”. The woman’s response: “No, no.”

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And Cunsolo replied with satisfaction: “Because I need a couple of hours of free answering, from two to four.” And he reassured: “I’ll call you as soon as I finish what I have to do”. Three cleanups were carried out between 2019 and 2020, Luca Sammartino was worried about the idea of ​​being intercepted by magistrates. But the Carabinieri of the Investigation unit were better, and when the cleanup of the two unfaithful soldiers began, countermeasures were taken to screen and protect bugs and cameras. Now, we continue to investigate other possible accomplices who continue to work at the courthouse.