Paolino Iorio, current general manager of Sogei, an in-house company of the Ministry of Economy and Finance that operates in the ITC sector, was arrested in flagrante delicto by the Guardia di Finanza while pocketing a bribe of 15 thousand euros from an entrepreneur, last night in Rome. The entrepreneur, Simone Rossi of Italware and Itd solution, was also arrested.
The activity is part of a broader investigation by the Capitoline prosecutors that involves a total of 18 people and 14 companies under investigation and in which the crimes of corruption and bid-rigging are alleged.
"The finance police of the Provincial Command of Rome, by order of this Public Prosecutor's Office, have executed a decree for a local and domiciliary search and seizure of several public officials and companies, for alleged corruption and disturbed freedom of auctions in the context of various procurement/assignment procedures in the IT and telecommunications sector, called by Sogei Spa, the Ministry of the Interior - Department of Public Security, the Ministry of Defense and the Defense General Staff ", the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office announced.
Among those under investigation is also Andrea Stroppa , born in 1994, considered, according to what the Finance Police write, to be "Elon Musk's contact in Italy" . In particular, according to what the Finance Police write, in a report cited in the search warrant, a Navy soldier under investigation, "upon learning of the project aimed at the acquisition by the Government of the satellite system (Starlink, ed.) created and supplied by a well-known US group, took advantage of the holding of a meeting on the subject at the VI department of which he is a member to hook up and subsequently contact the Italian contact of the Group, Andrea Stroppa".
(Online Union)
