«Rigged» 2023 elections in Cercola: votes sold for 20 euros and 30 euros. The daughter of the lifer in prison was also taken
Look it up. Since the first light of dawn, the Carabinieri of the Torre Del Greco company have been executing a precautionary custody order (six arrests in prison and one under house arrest) issued by the investigating judge of the Naples court at the request of the Neapolitan DDA against 7 people.
The suspects are considered seriously suspected of political-mafia electoral exchange, criminal association aimed at electoral corruption and possession and carrying of weapons in public places, crimes aggravated by the mafia method and with the aim of facilitating the Fusco-Ponticelli and De Micco clans. De Martino.
VOTES SOLD
Thirty euros per vote for the first electoral round and twenty for the run-off: this is the price list for the purchase and sale of preferences in Cercola, on the occasion of the local elections in May 2023. It emerged as part of an investigation by the Carabinieri and the DDA (pm Henry John Woodcock and Stefano Capuano) on a series of political-mafia vote exchange episodes documented in the Vesuvian municipality.
Among those arrested were the daughter of a boss serving a life sentence, a list representative at the time, a candidate linked by family ties to the De Micco clan, her brother, a councilor in a municipality in Naples, and also their father. The elections that ended up at the center of the investigations were the local elections of 14 and 15 May 2023, then the subsequent run-off on 25 and 26 May of the same year.
