The Council of State confirmed the dissolution for mafia infiltrations of the elective bodies of the Municipality of Capistranoin the Vibonese. The appeal of the former mayor Marco Martino against the Tar of Lazio sentence is rejected. For the Council of State there is in the presence of a “voluntary cooperation of the former administrators with the purposes of the criminal organization” and “the mafia influence on the local administration is ascertained”. The elements of mafia infiltration have been considered “concrete, unique and relevant”.
In the dissolution report of the local authority, it was specified that the investigation of the Prefecture of Vibo had started from an investigation by the newspaper Il Vibonese.it, relaunched by the then president of the Parliamentary Anti -Mafia Commission Nicola Morra. Having ascertained that the mayor Marco Martino (Forza Italia) sent messages of greetings for the birth of Emanuele Mancuso’s daughter, exponent of the homonymous clan of the ‘Ndrangheta which later became a collaborator of justice. The report also shows that the mayor, in the hearing in the Prefecture, provided a version of the “unlikely and censored facts” facts. Irregularities were found in contracts and taxes, while the administrators would have entertained relationships with crime. It also resorted to a “Civetta” list in order not to invalidate the electoral round and among the subscribers of this list there were also the wife of the deputy mayor Vito Pirruccio, the cousins of the latter and the wife of the councilor and president of the Council Vito Montesano, in addition to the husband of the majority councilor Maria Vittoria Caputo, while his wife and daughter of the candidate Rocco Tino (on the card. They were among the undersigned of the “Futura with Martino” list, together with the grandchildren of the councilor Bruno Cortese (the latter prescribed in an investigation by the DDA while the son was sentenced).
