The former extraordinary commissioner of Ilva of Taranto, Enrico Laghi, was placed this morning under house arrest by the Police and by the Guardia di Finanza.
The provision as part of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Potenza. The accusation is of corruption in judicial acts in competition with other people.
A preventive seizure was also carried out against Laghi for a value of approximately 270 thousand euros.
Also involved in the investigation that led Laghi to house arrest are the former Prosecutor of the Republic of Trani and Taranto, Carlo Maria Capristo, the lawyers Piero Amara and Giacomo Ragno, the police officer Filippo Paradiso and Nicola Nicoletti, who was a consultant of the commissioners of Ilva.
The investigation by the Prosecutor from Potenza led to the arrest of Amara last June. The investigations have hypothesized a "corruption pact" between the suspects, with exchanges of favors and benefits.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS - Laghi's arrest took place as a result of "new investigative investigations" based "on multiple and converging accusatory statements supported by investigative evidence". And the accusation of corruption in judicial acts against Laghi "opens" a scenario in which "some significant events" are "visible" - according to the Prosecutor from Potenza. The first concerns that of Capristo who acted to obtain "an incessant activity of recommendation, persuasion, solicitation" on some members of the Superior Council of the Judiciary - or on who could influence them - on the occasion of the publication of vacant management positions, such as the Public Prosecutor's Office General of Florence and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Taranto, where Capristo himself landed from Trani.
Other aspects of the investigation concern professional benefits for Amara, for Nicola Nicoletti (Ilva consultant), for the lawyer Giacomo Ragno, a friend of Capristo, in a "field of activity" in which Laghi himself had to "make a good impression" before the Government as commissioner of Ilva.
(Unioneonline / vl)
