The investigation into the management of the Taormina Sewerage Consortium, the body that deals with the sewerage system in the Ionian area, which in May had caused a real judicial earthquake with the execution of a precautionary custody order against former managers, entrepreneurs and politicians, focused on four people: a prohibitive measure involving suspension from duties, structured differently depending on the role covered.
The PM Roberta The Hope has in fact sent the preliminary investigations conclusion act to the thirteen suspects. The framework of the contested crime hypotheses has not changed since May, which are corruption, bid rigging, forgery, fraud and environmental pollutionfor a series of previous management events of the CRF that the Messina finance police and the Taormina police focused on during a long investigation.
In May the investigating judge had ordered the suspension from the exercise of public office of a former manager of the Taormina Sewerage Consortium, Joseph Caudulloand then the temporary ban for two entrepreneurs from the province of Messina, Angelo Oliveri from Taormina and Sebastiano “Nellino” Sgroi from Giardiniand a professional, the engineer from Taormina Oscar Alberto Aymaformer manager of the Institution, to enter into contracts with the Public Administration.
Among the suspects who have received the preliminary investigations’ conclusion act there is also the former mayor of Taormina Mauro Passalacquain her administrative position, the entrepreneur from Taormina Patricia Saviowho is also the legal representative of the company “Echo Beach”, the entrepreneur from Taormina Francis Onionand then Antonio Culoso (Castelmola), Orazio Luigi De Maria (Giardini Naxos), Fabio Maccarrone (from Piedimonte Etneo), Veronica Spoto (Gaggi), Giuseppe Sterrantino (from Calatabiano, resident in Fiumefreddo), and Giovanni Taliò (Taormina).
However, there is something new in this picture. The judges of the Messina review court, accepting the two requests filed by his lawyer, the lawyer Corrado Rizzorevoked the one-year interdiction measure against Caudullo: given the circumstantial evidence, they write that for the role he currently holds at the Municipality of Castelmola, as an employee of the computer protocol and mail sorting service, there are no “new concrete occasions for crime”.