Puglia Region, another case: the Fiamme Gialle investigate the company of the wife and mother-in-law of the Tourism Councilor Lopane

A new case shakes the council of Puglia region driven by Michele Emiliano. After the affair of the former transport councilor Anita Maurodinoia (who resigned after the investigation which sees her among those under investigation on charges of electoral corruption), now the spotlight is on the Tourism councilor Gianfranco Lopane. There Financial police of Taranto, a few days ago, acquired documents and identified the personnel serving in Osmairm rehabilitation center of Laterza, led by mother in law and from wife of Lopane. The Apulian tourism councilor is, among other things, director of the company “Real Estate Harmony” which deals with the services of Kitchen And laundry own of the Osmairm rehabilitation center and which receives approx 30 million euros per year from the Puglia Region.

According to what was reported on Corriere del Mezzogiorno, over fifty soldiers from the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Taranto Financial Police showed up at the same time – Wednesday 10 April – in all the Osmairm offices. The Fiamme Gialle would have collected and included it in the investigation file of the prosecutor’s office tax documentation, accountant And contracts which refer to an inclusive time frame between 2017 and today.

Lopane – who is not involved in the investigations directed by the prosecutor Lucia Isceri – for its part rejects the hypothesis of “conflict of interest” defining it as “tendentious” to link his name “to other events with respect to which they are absolutely foreign“. The “legitimate checks of the financial police in recent days” in the Osmairm facilities”they did not in any way concern my service company” which “I have been administering since 2018, therefore before I was elected to the Regional Council”, remarks the councilor. For Lopane the only “plausible connection” for involving him in this affair is that “of wanting to do so indirectly influence political choices on the part of those who are called upon to take them on in a delicate moment”. The reference is obviously to the judicial political earthquake that has been going on for weeks in Puglia, complete with a request addressed to Emiliano by the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein to implement “a clear change of phase”.