Figliolia, former mayor of Pozzuoli (Naples), is also free; he is accused of having favored a company for the awarding of contracts to Rione Terra.
House arrest has been lifted for Vincenzo Figliolia, former mayor of Pozzuoli (Naples): at one in the morning yesterday, 13 June, the provision ordered by the Court of Review on the afternoon of 11 June was carried out. The politician, who governed the town in the Neapolitan area for ten years in a row and until 2022, was arrested in January and, after a week of detention in Poggioreale prison, had been placed under house arrest since the end of that month; the charges are of bid rigging and corruption in the tender for the management of Rione Terra.
The next hearing of the trial, which in addition to Figliolia sees the former leader of the Democratic Party as defendants Nicola Oddati and the entrepreneur Salvatore Musella, has been set for October 3rd. The arrests began on January 15: 12 precautionary custody orders, carried out by the State Police and the Financial Police. Oddati and Musella also ended up in prison, and were subsequently placed under house arrest; the entrepreneur is the only one currently still under arrest.
The investigation is conducted by prosecutors Stefano Capuano and Immacolata Sica and coordinated by deputy prosecutors Sergio Amato and Sergio Ferrigno; according to the reconstruction of the investigators Figliolia allegedly favored Musella’s company, Cytec Srl, in the procedures for the assignment of lot A of the Rione Terra, where it was a question of building and managing for 18 years a hotel with 84 rooms, 15 shops, a restaurant and two bars. Following the arrest, pursuant to the Severino law, Figliolia was suspended as a city councilor after the arrest.
