TRENT. The story relating to cameras in the city, the “Marvel” and “Protector” projectsfor which the municipality of Trento was sanctioned with a fine of 25 thousand euros by the Privacy Guarantor (ARTICLE HERE), arrives at the Court of Auditors.
The four municipal councilors of Fratelli d’Italia presented the complaint, Daniele Demattè, Andrea Merler, Giuseppe Urbani and Cristian Zanetti that they talk about “bad management of public money”.
The Privacy Guarantor, while recognizing that the municipality’s error had been committed in good faith and other extenuating circumstances, had imposed a fine of 50 thousand euroswhich would have been reduced by half if the payment had occurred (as happened) within thirty days of notification of the provision, which took place on January 20th.
Well, on February 12 the council decided to pay the fine, specifying “to acknowledge that, as better explained in the premises, the payment of the sanction with the funds committed to the budgets in the terms indicated above is in any case compensated by the financing attributed to the Municipality of Trento for the aforementioned European projects, in the specific share of the indirect costs, avoiding in this world to determine an effective cost to municipal finances”.
In the complaint presented on the morning of Friday 19 April, the Fratelli d’Italia council group reconstructs the entire affair and talks about “often mocking and contemptuous attitude” by Mayor Ianeselli who “branded requests for information and highlighted concerns as mere demagogy”. The reference is to the question times of 5 November and 11 December and to the questions of 23 November and 6 December. “Reassuring answers were given to the questions Mayor and the councillor Casonatoregarding the legitimacy of the Municipality’s action”.
“The issue of mismanagement of public money does not, of course, concern only the aforementioned fine paid by the Municipality – continue the Fdi city councilors – but also to all the expenses that the Administration incurred to join, start and continue the (illegitimate) projects mentioned above, which saw the use of both direct public resources (purchase of goods, contracting of services, etc.), but also indirect costs (use of internal staff resources, hours of study and work of Municipality employees or consultants, drafting of specific administrative documents and spending commitments, etc.). The squandering of public money could also also concern the sums that the European Union appears to have requested from the Municipality of Trento, as it appears that most of the sums granted as financing had already been spent. For the aforementioned projects it seems there had already been 128,079 euros, equal to 90% of the total expenditure. Furthermore, it appears that, in May 2023, the Municipality received the sum of 102,000.00 euros in pre-financing: sums deriving from the Internal security fund. If this, or further sums, even in part, were to be returned, this could also cause treasury damage. Furthermore, the sum that the Ianeselli Administration has in any case spent (we are talking about public money) for an illegitimate and now abandoned project should be quantified – regardless of whether or not the sums are returned to the granting body”.
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