After 16 days under house arrest, the brothers Domenico and Nicola Pellegrino, entrepreneurs from Santa Margherita arrested on May 15th in an investigation by the DIA into the disposal of construction waste which was allegedly dumped into the Santo Stefano stream, have been released. Accepting the request of their lawyer, the lawyer Alessandro Billè, the Court of Freedom annulled the precautionary order and ordered his release.
According to the lawyer Billè, in addition to the fact that the precautionary requirements did not exist, the two brothers could not be accused of the mafia aggravating circumstance. Domenico and Nicola Pellegrino, according to the defense, had no intention of removing the assets from prevention measures. Furthermore, the crime alleged against the two entrepreneurs in the earthmoving sector is instantaneous while the alleged facts occurred two years after the moment in which they would have been committed.
Waiting for the reasons
More will be known in 45 days when the reasons are filed by the review judges. Dia’s investigations would have brought to light the fictitious nature of the registration of two trucks purchased by the brothers to the Gallodoro entrepreneur Roberto Cacopardo. The Dia also documented their involvement in four public contracts in two schools – in Cumia Superiore and in the Bordonaro kindergarten in the former Capitan Traina school – and one for the reduction of hydrogeological risk on some streams. The two brothers would have managed the disposal of waste materials coming from the private construction sector by depositing them in three illegal landfills, one of which in the S. Stefano stream.