Has returned to freedom Antonio Lonettothe 44 -year -old entrepreneur charged with four other people in the abbreviated rite procedure born from the investigation of the DDA of Catanzaro on the alleged tentacles that the wet gauge he would have stretched to the municipality of Roccabernarda (Crotone).
This was established by the district gup Mario Santoemma, who – accepting the request of the lawyer Aldo Truncè – has revoked the precautionary measure of the house arrest to which the 44 -year -old was subjected. The operation, in the wake of the “Trigarium” blitz which led to 14 final convictions, triggered on November 17, 2023 with three arrests performed by the carabinieri.
For the investigators, the former mayor of Roccabernarda, Vincenzo Pugliesetogether with the then technicians of the institution, Giovanni Iaquinta and Luigi Pirowould have conditioned the “methods of choosing the contractor to whom to entrust the public lighting maintenance service».
How? “Instead of assigning the service through the public tender between the various competing companies” – it is the investigative thesis – the works would have been fractional “strategically in multiple periodic assignments”, so as to directly entrust the interventions “under the threshold”, from 2010 to 2018, to the “Electric Service” company by Antonio Lonetto, considered contiguous to the wet.
A reconstruction that the anti -mafia prosecutor would have found in the aftermath of the end of the mandate of Pugliese, when in 2017 Nicola Bilotta became the first citizen. “As soon as Bilotta – is the accusatory thesis – the umbilical cord that tied the town hall to Lonetto,” temporarily entrusting the electrical service to a third party and selected in a lawful way “, “episodes of damage” began both against the Municipality and to the detriment of the contracting company of the contract.
Lonetto is charged with the boss Antonio Santo Bagnato, his brother Gianfranco and the collaborators of justice Domenico Iaquinta and Tommaso Rosa (the latter must respond to having been the basist of the murder of Rocco Castiglione and the attempted murder of his brother Raffaele, which took place in 2014). Ordinary process for Vincenzo Pugliese, Giovanni Iaquinta, Luigi Piro and Salvatore Aprigliano.