The deputy prosecutor of Catanzaro, Giulia Pantano, and the deputy prosecutor Saverio Sapia have invoked three convictions and one acquittal against the defendants in the abbreviated trial arising from the investigation into the alleged commercialization of the accommodation managed by Aterp in Catanzaro. The prosecution requested six years’ imprisonment against the municipal councilor of the capital Sergio Costanzo; two years for the managing official of the Heritage office and tenant Domenico Albino; 2 years and 6 months for the Aterp tenant Teresa Mancuso and acquittal for the tenant Saverio Mensica. During the trial, Aterp’s defense team also intervened as a civil party and asked for the request for compensation for the damages suffered by the organization to be accepted.
According to the accusation, in the “Aterp system”, Costanzo would have had “the function of liaison between citizens who intend to circumvent or facilitate their housing positions and the employees of the Aterp of Catanzaro”. Officials and employees of the institution would have identified free accommodation to be allocated illicitly, suggesting from time to time only apparently legitimate methods, such as the so-called “expansion of the family unit” procedure, or “change of accommodation”, or sometimes even proposing the occupation of vacant accommodation and subsequently requesting its regularisation.