Vote exchange and corruption a Look it upa municipality of 17 thousand inhabitants located east of Naples. According to what emerged from the police investigations, they were needed 30 euros to buy a vote20 euros for the ballot and 1800 euros for a package of preferences from the hands of Camorra clan. 7 arrests (6 in prison and one person under house arrest) for crimes of political-mafia electoral exchange.
The Carabinieri investigation into vote swapping and corruption in Cercola
The 7 people arrested on the morning of Monday 7 May Look it up are considered seriously suspected of political-mafia electoral exchangecriminal association aimed at electoral corruption and possession and carrying of weapons in public places.
These crimes, reports the Adnkronos agency, would be aggravated by the mafia method and the aim of facilitating the so-called Camorra-type associations Fusco-Ponticelli clan And De Micco-De Martino.
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The words of the prosecutor of Naples, Nicola Gratteri
As the prosecutor of Naples points out, Nicola Gratterithe Carabinieri investigation into vote trading and corruption to Look it up,, which led to 7 precautionary measures, arose from a report from the traffic police of that municipality.
Gratteri states that this is an “important investigation not for the number of arrested people, but for the type of crimethe severity of the exchange votewhich may outrage the community and the magistrates”.
“It’s needed courage in small townsstanding shoulder to shoulder with the administration, as i traffic wardensto report – says Gratteri – and arrests were also made thanks to the promptness of the prosecutor and the police”.
The prosecutor of Naples, Nicola Gratteri
The speed in setting up this investigation was fundamental, observes Gratteri. “The De clan Luca Bossawith the Mazzarella clan above it, then the camorra series Athey created the cultural humus for this situation a Look it up“.
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7 people arrested
According to what emerged from the investigations, the 7 people arrested during the electoral round for the local elections of municipality of Look it upset on the dates of 14 and 15 May of the year 2023 and the subsequent ballot of 25 and 26 May, would have created, with a perfect organization and division of tasks and roles, a mechanism aimed at polluting the outcome of electoral consultations.
Thirty euros per vote for the first electoral round and 20 euros for the run-off: this, according to what emerged from the investigations, would have been the price list for the purchase and sale of preferences Look it up.
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