CAMPANIA – There are 17 managers and former managers of the Campania Region under investigation by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office for Campania of the Court of Auditors in relation to damage to the revenue of the Campania Region. Among the recipients of the invitations to deduce notified by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of NAPLES include the current president of the Campania Regional Council, Gennaro Oliviero, the former president, Rosa D’Amelio, and various members or former members of the Presidential Office of the Regional Council, including Vincenzo Maraio, now national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party.
According to what was reconstructed by the judiciary and the Financial Police investigating the matter, between 2019 and 2021, through specific resolutions, the leaders of the Regional Council continued to provide the “administrative coordinators” of the council groups and the secretariat managers of the commissions board members an illicit ancillary economic treatment equivalent to that of management.
This, despite a ruling from the Constitutional Court having already declared the unconstitutionality of similar economic treatment through the creation of special funds established by regional laws. According to the investigators, therefore, this economic treatment equal to that of managers would have been consistently recognized to figures without an adequate professional profile in contrast with the exclusive competence assigned in the matter to the state legislator, with the national collective labor agreement and with the same regional legislation introduced starting from 2021 as well as in violation and evasion of the constitutional ruling.
