The vice-president of the regional Anti-Mafia Bernadette Grasso, interviewed for brief information by the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office, admitted having had contact with the Favara boss Carmelo Vetro, to whom she had been introduced by the former MEP Salvatore Iacolino.
The regional parliamentarian of Fi Iacolino, who as it emerged yesterday is under investigation for external complicity in a mafia association, had asked if she had people to report to Vetro for the hiring of an entrepreneur from Messina in a security company. Grasso claimed that he had no doubts about Vetro since it was introduced to him by the MEP whom he had known for a long time for political reasons. The parliamentarian had thus reported names and CVs to the boss (whose criminal past and 9-year sentence for mafia she allegedly ignored). The matter had ended in nothing because Vetro had told her that the hiring would no longer be made. This morning Grasso announced her self-suspension from office.