Orlando is also among those under investigation

The Prosecutor’s Office Catania appealed the investigating judge’s decision which rejected the seizure of the company’s assets Rap from Palermo And Oikos as part of the investigation into the sites of Avalanche landfill in winter and Tiriti.

In recent days the Carabinieri of Noe and the Judicial Police section have notified a notice of conclusion of investigations a 32 under investigation in which, for various reasons, crimes of abuse in the management, treatment and disposal of hundreds of thousands of tons of waste are hypothesized.

Among those under investigation are the entrepreneurs of Oikos spa, Horace And Dominic Protothe head of the regional civil protection department Salvatore Cocinaas general manager of the Waste Management Plant Authorizations service, some of the then managers and technicians of Rap, the then mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlandoand the three commissioners appointed by the prefect of Catania for the management of the landfill, in office from 19 December 2014 to 3 February 2017: Maurizio Cassarino, Riccardo Tenti and Stefano Scammacca.

Investigation also closed for two companies, in the person of their respective legal representatives: the Rap from Palermo Spa And Oikos Spa. According to one indictment, from Rap from Palermo would have been disposed of in managed landfills from the Oikos urban waste undifferentiated And Not as a dry fraction, as expected, due to the inadequacy and inefficiency of the fixed and mobile mechanical biological treatment (MBT) plants in use in the landfill of Bellolampo.

This, according to the prosecution, would have allowed the two companies to achieve huge profits. The notice of conclusion of the investigation was signed by the deputy prosecutors Raffaella Agata Vinciguerra And Angelo Brugalettaand endorsed by the deputy prosecutor Ignazio Fonzo. The same magistrates who had requested personal measures and the seizure of the assets of the two companies under investigation, which however the investigating judge rejected. The Prosecutor’s Office has partially appealed against this decision of the judge for preliminary investigations: returning to request the reform of the decision with the seizure of the company’s assets Rap from Palermo And of the Oikos and the consequent appointment of directors.