Cosenza, asked for trial for Oliverio, Occhiuto, Adamo in the Passepartout inquiry. Contested the association to commit a crime

Public administrators, politicians and entrepreneurs in Calabria. All together in thecriminal association which, according to the Catanzaro Procuratorate, had "the purpose of committing an undetermined series of crimes against the public administration". Bidding rigged and corruption. But also remote-controlled appointments to the Calabria Region and traffic of influences.

For the twenty suspects in the "Passpartout" investigation, the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and the substitute Vito Valerio they have asked for trial. In the list there are two aspiring candidates for the president of the Calabria Region, the outgoing Mario Oliverio (Pd) and the mayor of Cosenza Mario Occhiuto (Forza Italia).

The trial was also requested for the former member of the Democratic Party Nicola Adamo and for the regional councilor Luigi Incarnato. The latter is accused of trafficking of illicit influences because, in February 2016, taking advantage of his political relations with many municipal councilors from Cosenza, he would convince them to resign to bring down Mayor Occhiuto. In exchange he was promised "public and institutional appointments by Nicola Adamo and Mario Oliverio".

Assignments that, according to the prosecutor, then also arrived: his "illicit mediation"In fact, it would have been repaid with the appointment as liquidator of Sorical spa (Calabresi Water Resources Company).

The match was also Luca Morrone, the former president of the Council of Cosenza who, due to his resignation, would have accepted the promise “made by Adam and Oliverio to cover alternatively or the office of deputy mayor within the political team possibly winning in the subsequent elections or in any case an assignment as an engineer at the Calabria Region ".

At the center of the investigation are the calls for tenders for the construction of the new hospital, the surface metro and the Alaric Museum, but also the restoration of the Sila tourist railway section.

Behind it all, according to the prosecutor's office, there was a criminal association of which President Oliverio would have been part, as promoter, his most faithful Nicola Adamo, the director of the Region Luigi Giuseppe Zinno, the director of Ferrovie Calabria Giuseppe Lo Feudo and the entrepreneurs Pietro Ventura and Rocco Borgia.

The "point of reference" would have been Nicola Adamo, the former vice president of the Region considered "theconnecting element among politicians, public administrators and private entrepreneurs ". The objective, according to the investigators, was to maintain control over the procedures for awarding the main public works and to favor the realization of the same, through the involvement of friendly companies sponsored by the suspects. All through "collusion, agreements, promises and fraudulent means".

In essence, according to investigators, Nicola Adamo would have been Mario Oliverio's advisors. For the construction of the new hospital, the regional politics and the bureaucracy would have first concerted the strategy of participation in the tender, "orienting groups of interested companies so as to pre-identify the" consortium "winner", and then they would upset the procedure awarding the feasibility study of the hospital to the company Steam srl.

In the business of the system of metropolitan connection between Cosenza, Rende and Unical, however, the mayor of Cosenza Mario Occhiuto, now accused of corruption, got caught. According to the prosecutors in Catanzaro, in exchange for signing the program agreement for the construction of a sustainable mobility system, Occhiuto would have accepted "the promise made by Oliverio through the manager Luigi Zinno, to obtain from the Calabria Region the financing and administrative coverage for the construction of the Museum of Alaric, object of tender (illegitimate) called by the Municipality of Cosenza ".

From the papers of the "Passpartout" survey it emerges that in Calabria the public affair would be managed as a private interest. The Calabrese politicians involved come out in pieces. The same people who, in their respective center-left and center-right sides, are now prancing to come back to the next regional elections.

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