The Lazio Tar confirmed the dissolution for mafia infiltrations of the elective organs of the Municipality of Stefanaconi, in the Vibonese, rejecting the appeal of the former mayor Salvatore Solano, former president of the province of Vibo, and other former administrators.
The “serious prejudice to the interests of the community, the serious pollution and deterioration of the municipal administration with the loss of credibility of the local institution, a widespread bad management of public affairs and an evident absence of legality in the administrative action, as well as concrete, unique and relevant elements on connections of the administrators with organized crime of the mafia -type crime” would be confirmed.
The TAR and the dissolution report then highlight that the figure of the former mayor Salvatore Solano – sentenced for electoral corruption in competition with his cousin Giuseppe D’Amico (sentenced to 30 years for mafia association, while his brother Antonio was sentenced to 18 years) – “appears unquestionably colluded with prominent elements of organized crime” since the “acts appears that the role has covered the exponents aimed at promoting the exponents. of organized crime and their interests “, with a” functional subordination of Solano with respect to D’Amico and a relationship of contiguity of the first citizen continued also with the functions performed as president of the province of Vibo Valentia “.
Carabinieri and police then reported that Solano “entertains contraindicated frequentations, so much so that it usually accompanies itself with subjects attributable to organized crime” and the dissolution report has exposed “a long list of frequentations and controls of the members of the elective bodies of the Municipality of Stefanaconi, making a subjection of local administrators to organized crime plausible”. Finally, in one year 82 direct custody of public works without tender have been a tender, of which 19 finished in companies “have been contiguous to mafia environments” with consequent “permeability of the administrative structure of the Municipality of Stefanaconi to the influences of the underworld”.