Campania Governor Vincenzo De
Luca said Wednesday that he was the injured party after it
emerged that he is among seven people under investigation in a
corruption probe launched by Rome prosecutors.
Anna Scognamiglio, one of the Naples judges who in July
upheld De Luca's appeal against a suspension linked to a
previous abuse-of-office conviction, is under investigation for
suspected corruption in relation to the probe.
So is Nello Mastursi, who this week quit from his position
as head of De Luca's regional secretariat, as well as
Scognamiglio's husband, lawyer Guglielmo Manna, intermediaries
Giorgio Poziello and Gianfranco Brancaccio and Giuseppe Vetrano,
the former coordinator of the groups that supported De Luca's
election campaign.
De Luca was threatened by some of the suspects under
investigation with a ruling against him if he did not approve a
requested nomination in Campania's health system, Rome
investigative sources said on Wednesday.
This allegedly led De Luca to promise Manna a
health-sector post.
"I'm the injured party in this case, me and the
institutions that I represent," the governor told reporters on
Wednesday.
He added that he "supports fully the action of the
magistrates" and urged them to keep going with the probe.
The judiciary's self governing body, the Supreme Council
of Magistrates (CSM), is set to take action regarding
Scognamiglio, ANSA sources said.
"I don't know De Luca, nor Mastursi, nor Vetrano," said
Scognamiglio via her lawyer Giovanbattista Vignola.
"I never had any form of contact with them, so I did not
ask them for any favours for me or my husband and I couldn't
have done so".
Scognamiglio added that she kicked Manna out of the
marital home after it was searched in relation to the probe in
October, along with the residences of all the other suspects
except for De Luca.
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