The head of the regional council was beheaded yesterday at dawn. The prosecutor: overwhelming evidence. The disputed allegations are very serious: from corruption to extortion from forgery to fraud to money laundering.
FROM PESCARA GIULIO ISOLA The President of the Abruzzo Region, Ottaviano Del Turco, in prison in Sulmona. The councilor for production activities, Antonio Boschetti, in Lanciano and Bernardo Mazzocca, holder of the health delegation, under house arrest in Pescara. The arrests which, yesterday at dawn, beheaded the top regional council are excellent. The accusations are very serious, not the same for everyone, from corruption to extortion, from forgery to fraud, from conspiracy to money laundering. Bribes, in short, a dizzying round of money for a total of 14 million euros, 12.8 of which, again according to the indictment, have already been pocketed or promised to the protagonists of the judicial storm. In addition to the president and the two councillors, seven others were affected by precautionary custody orders, in prison and under house arrest: the regional councilors Camillo Cesarone, leader of the Pd and Vito Domenici, of the Pdl, former councilor for health, formerly of Forza Italia, the general secretary of the Presidency of the Region, Lamberto Quarta, the former manager of the ASL of Chieti, Luigi Conga, the personal secretary of Mazzocca, Angelo Bucciarelli, Gianluca Zelli, owner of the Humangest company in Pescara and the former president of the Fi.ra , the regional financial institution of Abruzzo, Giancarlo Masciarelli. For Francesco Di Stanislao, general manager of the regional health company, investigated since last April 30, the investigating judge has ordered only the ban on staying in Pescara. The collaboration provided to the investigators by Vincenzo Angelini, one of the kings of regional private healthcare, administrator of the "Villa Pini d'Abruzzo" nursing home and owner of the "Sanatrix" clinic, would have given the sudden acceleration to the investigation by the Pescara judiciary in L'Aquila. He, investigated in the sensational investigation, would have been the one to guide the magistrates on the path of the alleged bribes. In short, a damaged concussus, according to the prosecutor's office, the private health manager. He would have unstitched or promised those 14 million euros, perhaps even more, in exchange for the payment of private health reimbursements. The turning point would have occurred after Angelini's interrogation last April, when 1 entrepreneur would have spilled the beans, explaining to the magistrates how the criminal design would have been conceived. Yesterday afternoon, at the Palace of Justice in Pescara crowded with reporters, it was the prosecutor Trifuoggi himself, who has been working on the investigation for two years with his deputies Bellelli and Di Florio, who met the press. «Other than theorem, there is no theorem here. Here are very painful facts, proof of the payment of a lot of money, a boatload of money, thirty billion old lire». This is the hardest thrust by Nicola Trifuoggi, chief prosecutor of Pescara, who for more than two hours, flanked by his substitutes Bellelli and Di Florio, held a press conference yesterday afternoon. The reference to the words spoken by Prime Minister Berlusconi from Paris after learning of the arrests in Abruzzo is clear. «The suspects – said the magistrate – are crushed by an avalanche of evidence and we have put together documentary evidence, testimonials, wiretaps and even receipts for bank withdrawals and motorway telepass tickets. But also logical feedback. Over time we realized that there were too many illegitimacy - he continued - for us to speak only of administrative ease. Thus the suspicion arose that someone was making money on it. The mechanism? He promised himself to the entrepreneur
