TRENT. The prosecutor’s office of the Court of Auditors – Trento office – sued 14 former and current managers and officials of the Region, Province of Trento and Province of Bolzano for the digitization work of the regional cadastre and land register, accused of having opted for in-house assignment to IT companies – under public control – without carefully evaluating the greater convenience offered on the market. An accusation that could cost them treasury damages of just under 5.5 million euros, to be precise 5,471,771.64 euros.
In fact, at the end of last year it was made known that the invitation to deduce – signed by the public prosecutor Gianluca Albo – had been sent to nineteen people in total. Following this act, everyone had presented counter-arguments for their defense (filed in the following months between January and March of this year). However, none of these would have asked to be heard by the regional prosecutor. Now, therefore, five of these positions have been archived, having presented marginal roles in the affair.
14 remain to be sued, expected at the hearing which will be held next December. The summons was served last Friday.
The accusation formulated always remains the same: the tax damage contested by the Court of Auditors, equal to the savings (whose sum remains unchanged at around 5 and a half million euros) will now be divided – in different shares and for various reasons, based on responsibility – among the 14 high-level officials.
In particular, the agreement signed several years ago by the then general secretary of the Region, with the then Trentino Network (now incorporated into Trentino Digitale) and with Südtiroler Informatik.
The Region and the two Provinces would have entrusted numerous tasks to the two publicly controlled companies, which ranged from the development of ad hoc applications and IT systems to the maintenance of information technology systems, from the development of online platforms to their updating.
Furthermore, with the guarantee of being able to rely on external suppliers to complete the tasks. The Court of Auditors, which had entrusted the investigation to the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Trento, had accused managers and officials of a certain superficiality in evaluating what could be the best solution, from an economic point of view for the public coffers.
Another accusation leveled against officials and managers is that of having acted in such a way as to make in-house assignment the best and most convenient solution.entrusting Assinter with the drafting of a report from which it emerged that the sums involved were in line with those of the market.
