There is also the former chief engineer of the civil engineering department of Catania, Natale Zuccarello, now retired, among the five people arrested by the financial police of the provincial command as part of the "Genius" investigation of the district prosecutor's office on alleged "favors "In the concession of public works in the province of Etna.
The crimes hypothesized by the investigating judge are corruption, disturbed freedom of enchantments and forgery in public deeds. A civil engineering manager, Saverio Verde, and two building contractors, Nunzio Adesini and Rocco Mondello, were also taken to prison. House arrest for a civil engineering officer, Ignazio Carbonaro. To a third entrepreneur investigated in the same investigation, Sebastiano Caggia, the investigating judge imposed a ban on exercising the office of managing director of the Comiso Consortium (Caec).
The operation was carried out in the provinces of Catania, Enna, Ragusa and Caltanissetta.
At the center of the investigations alleged irregularities in the award of three public contracts for a total value of four million. The tenders at the center of the investigations are: the consolidation of road failures, caused by landslides, in Aci Catena; the refurbishment and modernization of a provincial road from Etna; the recovery works and the safety measures for users and workers of the port of Catania.
(Unioneonline / D)
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