Puglia, Pisicchio gets Emiliano in trouble: “He alerted me to the investigation”. Chats pop up

The deep throat of the Pisicchio arrest? The governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano. It is the incredible revelation that Alfonso Pisicchio, former regional councilor and Arts commissioner, made to the investigating judge during the interrogation on the investigation into electoral corruption and rigged tenders, which last April 10th led him to be under house arrest together with his brother Enzo Pisicchio and some entrepreneurs from Bari. The judge for preliminary investigations Ilaria Casu had asked Alfonsino to talk about the circumstances of his timely resignation, which had cast doubts on the fact that someone may have warned the suspects of the imminent arrests. Pisicchio, in fact, had resigned from his seat at Arti in the morning and the execution of the order took place that same evening, with an acceleration compared to the times expected by the investigators. And Emiliano’s former loyalist did not hesitate to tell what was behind those resignations. Not just statements, but he actually showed the WhatsApp messages that he had exchanged with the governor in the morning.

“There is an investigation into you, resign or I’ll kick you out”, Pisicchio told the investigating judge, underlining that Emiliano would have referred to “Roman sources” who would have warned him of the acceleration of the judicial case of his regional commissioner. Alfonsino would have asked for a meeting, but the governor would have refused. At that point Pisicchio would have sent the screenshot to his family and resigned. Hours after the arrests of the Guardia di Finanza, which apparently caught Enzo Pisicchio deleting chats from his cell phone. Investigations are now underway to try to trace the source of the leak.