The investigative documents on the Festa administration will also arrive on the table of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission. They were sent by Procura of Avellino, led by Domenico Airoma, at the request of the president of the anti-mafia commission, Chiara Colosimo. Therefore the documents of the “Dolce Vita” investigation which led to the arrest of the resigning mayor Gianluca Festa, the former municipal manager Filomena Smiraglia and the architect Fabio Guerriero will land in Palazzo San Mancuto. Former mayor Festa is under investigation for alleged episodes of corruption, rigged competitions, irregularities in assignments and contracts, but also for misdirection, contamination of evidence and revelation of official secrecy.
The parliamentary commission, on the basis of the documents transmitted, will be able to carry out further in-depth studies on the Avellino investigation which is still in an embryonic phase, also through the hearing of investigators and investigators who operated on the “system” created in the offices of Piazza del Popolo neutralizing the well-established mechanism that came to light with the wiretaps and the audio and video recordings. The documents of the investigation confirm the Avellino Prosecutor’s Office, were sent to the Parliamentary Commission. Among the tasks of the commission is to verify compliance with the self-regulation code in candidacies to elective bodies, declaring in the case of failure to comply with these rules the so-called “unpresentability of the candidates”.
However, it must be clarified that the file will remain anchored to the competence of the Avellino Prosecutor’s Office – they explain at the courthouse -. In essence there will be no involvement of District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Naples Prosecutor’s Office competent in case of investigative activities relating to Camorra-type criminal associations.
And, adds subcommissioner Gamerra, it is also excluded that there will be any repercussions on the holding of the June elections.
On Tuesday morning the three suspects under house arrest will appear before the investigating judge Giulio Argenio who signed the order against Festa, Smiraglia and Guerriero. Necessary measure due to the concrete risk of contamination of the evidence and recurrence of the illicit conduct that ended up at the centre of the “Dolce Vita” investigation. The wiretaps concerned the former mayor and the other 9 suspects: the architect Fabio Guerriero, the former municipal manager Filomena Smiraglia, the winner of the technical officer competition Marianna Cipriano, sister of a municipal councilor of Frigento, Germana Simeone of a well-known radio network, Davide Mazza candidate for the traffic police competition, his father Antonio Mazza, Gianluigi Marotta municipal manager of the municipal finance sector and Vittorio Ambrosino manager of a restaurant chain franchise.
On the selective procedure for conditional traffic policemen, the cameras in the anteroom of the mayor’s office, on December 13, 2023, immortalize a significant speech. ‘s father arrives in the offices Davide Mazza, Antonio to whom the former mayor delivers a white envelope. From checks on the mobile phone of the 26-year-old candidate for the competition, it emerges that these were the questions for the written test. Subsequently, on 28 December the former mayor met Antonio Mazza and told him “see you in early January”. The former mayor warns him: “your son spoke to a friend.” Conversation for the investigating judge is particularly relevant because it provides evidence that the former mayor intended to encourage the candidate Davide Mazza to pass the tests for the competition by favoring him to the detriment of the other competitors.
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