ANCONA – Ex Angelini of Ancona, the prosecutor opens an investigation into the maxi-purchase in two tranches by the former Sturani council of the disused industrial complex overlooking Via Flaminia. The investigation was triggered by the complaint presented by the former councilor of the Left for Ancona Eugenio Duca who, in June, had personally presented himself on the third floor of the Palace of Justice to denounce, through a long complaint, the alleged waste of the administration . In the dossier Duca had touched on some thorny issues, including the purchase of the building in Palombella, the historic headquarters of the pharmaceutical company, taken over by the Municipality between 2005 and 2008 for a good 4 million 581 thousand euros.
Money spent without a real recovery project, so much so that the building is still deserted, and therefore for no apparent reason. The suspicions of the former councilor and parliamentarian were collected by the prosecutors who, in recent months, have ordered investigations in an attempt to ascertain what is hidden behind that substantial outflow of money and whether there are any possible crimes. At the moment no criminal irregularities have been hypothesized and there are no entries in the register of suspects. The magistrates, who listened to Duca, are sifting through the material in their possession, reports and resolutions, but are also verifying the timing of the double purchase to understand, in the event that hypotheses of crime come to light, whether these have already been in prescription.
The expenses are in fact dated. The acquisition of the first part of the building dates back to the end of 2005, when the Municipality disbursed 3.726 million. In the council resolution, approved on 22 November 8 years ago, there was no mention of the destination of the property. There was talk of moving the Nautico there, but also of using it as a youth hostel or of building social housing, offices and clubs. None of this ever materialised. Left unused, the complex has in the meantime become a shelter for drug dealers, the homeless and illegal immigrants. Three years after the first purchase, the second resolution had arrived with which, on 30 January 2008, the Sturani junta had decided to allocate another 843 thousand euros to take over a second block, which remained out of the first operation.
To date, the former Angelini is unfinished. And you don't know what to do with it. But there are other problems as well. In the first place asbestos, with remediation work never started due to lack of funds. To restore the complex and clean it from the dangerous fiber, the Municipality had calculated a budget of 1 million. Still to be found. Yet, when the first purchase was made, the junta was aware that there was asbestos in Palombella, as evidenced by the documents deposited in the Palazzo del Popolo. And he was also aware that the building was included in the basin removal plan for the hydrogeological structure. Which means that nothing can be done at the former Angelini site if the area at risk of a landslide is not secured first.
Lastly, according to Duca's report, there are no documents on the basis of which the property can be configured as industrial archeology or an opinion from the Superintendence on its use. The floor now to the magistrates, who are at work to verify the existence or not of hypothetical crimes and therefore to identify any perpetrators.
