In Calabria it can happen that a candidate for mayor, who has lost his office because he was arrested, is sent to trial for serious crimes such as fraud and embezzlement, but still runs for mayor once again, chatting about a very presumed will of the citizens to justify his appearance of bronze or ass. Because this is what we’re talking about, there’s no point in beating around the bush.
The financiers listened for hours and days to the mayor Francesco Mundo and also to the other suspects in the “Major” investigation, which on 13 July 2021 led to Mundo’s arrest and a few months ago to his indictment. In fact, many “hot” wiretaps had ended up on the desk of the magistrates which framed the then mayor of Trebisacce, who now wants his position back despite him being a full-blown fraudster. In the precautionary custody order, there were therefore both the conversations that put Mundo in trouble and some testimonies. These are stories that disarmingly confirm the accusatory system, i.e. the false signatures to reach the quorum. According to the investigators, in fact, Mundo would have tried to oust the regional councilor Graziano Di Natale and take away his councilor’s seat from him. A 360 degree scam, no doubt about it.
Some are considered by the investigators to be very significant for the purposes of the investigation, especially when the speakers were the same people contacted by Mundo to forge the signatures.
«After the elections – a witness told the financiers – Mundo called me, telling me that he had to present an electoral appeal against the proclamation of those elected and with reference to his candidacy, asking me if I was aware of electoral fraud in the sections on the Tyrrhenian and if I was available to sign declarations in lieu of affidavit relating to these frauds. I told him that I didn’t know and that I wouldn’t sign anything. At the beginning of April 2020, Mundo sent me, via WhatsApp, a model of declaration in lieu of affidavit relating to irregularities that occurred in the sections of the Tyrrhenian side”.
The witness, however, immediately refused to accept the proposal of the mayor of Trebisacce even though the latter reassured him several times by telling him that the TAR would not open any investigation in any case. But the witness, in the end, did not sign any statement. In this regard, the investigating judge highlights that “the content of the wiretaps cannot be overlooked, from which the precise awareness of Mundo’s instigative contribution to the formation of the false declarations can be deduced”. The financiers also intercepted the awareness of Mayor Mundo, who in May 2020 said: “Oh well, yes: I used a false document, I’ll get a sentence…”. Do you understand how Mundo has it?
