They are accused of being the representatives a Genoa of the community of Riesiin the province of Caltanissetta. In this capacity they would have addressed the votes of the “Sicilians” to the list of Giovanni Toti for the 2020 regional elections. There is also the long shadow of Cosa Nostra in the investigation that led to the arrest of the governor of Liguria. Matteo CozzaniToti’s chief of staff and his right-hand man, ended up under house arrest on charges of electoral corruption aggravated by having facilitated the mafia. Crime committed together with Arturo Angelo Testa And Maurizio Testaexponents of Forza Italia in Lombardy, considered very close to the regional coordinator Alessandro Sorte.
The brothers of Forza Italia – The two brothers are indicated by the investigators as representatives of the community that emigrated to Genoa from Riesi, in the province of Caltanissetta. In this capacity they are accused of having favored the mafia,” especially the clan Cammarata of the mandate of Riesi with screening in the city of Genoa”, write the investigators in the press release issued to explain the details of the investigation. It was arranged for the Testas the obligation to reside in the municipality of Boltierein the province of Bergamo. Arturo Testa he works at the Lombardy Regional Council as a group collaborator Forza Italia at the service of the president of the Territory commission Jonathan Lobati, regional councilor elected in the Bergamo district. He started working in the group at the beginning of the new legislature after last year’s regional elections, attending Pirellone at least three times a week. Maurizio Testahowever, is the coordinator of the provincial district of Dalmine di Forza Italia. In the past he was a councilor and municipal councilor in the municipality of Boltiere. After the news of the investigation i two were suspended from Forza Italia. “Following the investigation that involved them, members Maurizio Testa and Arturo Testa were suspended,” reads a note from Forza Italia.
“Forza Italia, totally unrelated to the facts, claims its guaranteeist values and awaits the conclusion of the investigations and any procedural outcomes”, continues the statement.
The accusations – The Testas and Cozzanis are accused “of having promised jobs and the change of public housing to convey the votes of voters belonging to the Riesi community of Genoa (at least 400 preferences) and in any case Sicilians towards the list Let’s change with Toti Presidentas well as towards the suspect Stefano Anzalone and some other candidates from the aforementioned list, the latter subjected to investigations”. The two brothers are also under investigation together with Anzalone, a candidate for the regional council on Toti’s list accused of having offered “the Testa brothers the support of food and living expenses in Genoa of the aforementioned brothers in the period between 10 and 19 September 2020. The crime is aggravated, as regards the Testa brothers, not also for Anzalone, for having been committed in order to facilitate the activity of the Cosa Nostra mafia association, in particular the Cammarata clan of the Riesi district with projection in the city of Genoa”. Toti is only accused of electoral corruption, without any mafia-type aggravating circumstances. The investigators underline that no evidence has emerged against him in this sense. The crime of electoral corruption is also accused of Venanzio Maurici, indicated as the “Genoese” voter and representative of the Cammarata clan. In exchange for his vote, the investigators explain, he accepted “the promise of a job in favor of his daughter’s live-in partner”.
