A court on Wednesday indicted
five former executives of Rome's ATAC public transport company
and an ex alderman for abuse of office in connection with the
hiring of some 50 highly-paid staffers in spite of the fact they
were not qualified for the job.
The former executives to stand trial beginning May 11 are
Adalberto Bertucci, Antonio Marzia, Luca Masciola, Vincenzo
Tosques and Tullio Tulli.
Also among the defendants will be Marco Visconti, the
former alderman in charge of the environment under ex rightwing
mayor, Gianni Alemanno.
Ex ATAC human resources director Riccardo Di Luzio and
former personnel administrator Mario Marinelli have been
exonerated.
Among the questionable hires was that of a former waitress
and night club hostess with a high school diploma to a
specialized post with yearly gross salary of 30,000 euros.
Investigators also took exception to the hiring of
Visconti's wife, Barbara Pesimena, to a mid-level management
post with a salary of 73,000 euros a year.
Pesimena got the job in spite of the fact that "she clearly
lacked the necessary qualifications for a highly complex
executive position", prosecutors wrote in their indictement
request.
The case dubbed locally as 'Parentopoli'
(Nepotism-ville) first surfaced in 2010.
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