The Municipality of Reggio Calabria has never signed contracts for the supply of the water service For their offices, sports facilities, courts, cemeteries and more. Even the local police command is without a contract, and the related measures are missing. The case came out after the request for access to the documents to Sorical Spa, a company that manages the water service in Calabria, by Simone Antonio Veronese, professor and union manager of the UIL School of Reggio Calabria, as well as president of the “Life” association for rare diseases. The affair turned into a report-report presented to the Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, the Court of Auditors of Calabria and the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza.
According to Veronese, the Municipality of Reggio Calabria would be prosecuted for the crime of theft of water, and having never put its cost in the outgoing budget would also have determined a fake in the budget. “Cubic meters of stolen water, never counted – is written in the complaint – and to pass as losses of the water network and spread in the bills of citizens, who pay, for this reason, the highest rate in Italy”.
The Municipality of Reggio would never comply with the obligation, which has been in force since 1996, to regularize all the users of schools, sports facilities, cemeteries, offices and garrisons of municipal property. “Since then the necessary sums has been counting and by not registering the sums to the budget, the damage is around 2-3 million euros,” said Simone Veronese confuting what was said by the vice mayor Paolo Brunetti“which, despite being one of the greatest experts in the water and tax sector, cannot come to tell us today he did not know. Brunetti knew about this problem and the mayor must give us an answer.
There is a very serious situation – concluded Veronese – and I would not like someone to have deliberately delayed the installation of these meters to download everything on the next administrations that will come “.
Together with Simone Veronese, Benedetto Romeo Which has redone to the same forms of Sorical for the activation of new users, where, among other items, the check appears clear in the event that the request comes from a public body “which must compulsorily tighten, install water meters. Only in this way, will it be possible to determine the previous consumption, which since 2023 are not prescribed, and therefore, they can still be considered in the budget and must be paid ».