Emiliano’s text message exchange with Pisicchio: “You are under investigation.” Checks by the prosecutors of Bari

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Michele Emiliano, would have notified Alfonsino Pisicchio, the former extraordinary commissioner of the Arts who the governor of the Puglia region had appointed in December 2023, of the ongoing investigations. Pisicchio himself, arrested on the evening of April 10, reported this in the interrogation. last.

The investigation

Pisicchio and his brother Enzo were arrested on charges of having channeled substantial regional funding to some companies in exchange for various benefits (including numerous hirings of family members and political activists) and through false surety policies provided by a so-called broker.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Pisicchio – when he held the role of regional councilor – would have altered a 5 million tender announced by the Municipality of Bari for the collection of taxes, assigned to the company of the entrepreneur Giovanni Riefoli (under investigation, under house arrest), receiving in exchange utilities for 50 thousand euros and a hiring package.

His brother Enzo, president of the “Democratic Initiative” political movement, was also arrested on Wednesday.

«Roman sources»

But let’s get back to the interrogation. According to what Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno reported today (Friday 19 April), Alfonsino Pisicchio showed the investigating judge a series of screenshots extrapolated from mobile phones attributable to him, from which an exchange of text messages with the governor of Puglia Emiliano emerges. The latter, in particular, would have revealed that according to “Roman sources” Pisicchio was the subject of an investigation. Not only that, again according to what the Apulian newspaper says, Emiliano would have been aware of the “updating of the precautionary needs” reported in an information from the economic-financial police unit of the Financial Police of Bari.