A former mayor of the Campania
city of Caserta was taken to prison Thursday after the supreme
Cassation Court upheld a guilty verdict against him for
corruption aggravated by links to organized crime, making it
binding.
Giuseppe Gasparin, 56, was sentenced to three years eight
months for taking bribes from Angelo Grillo, a hospital cleaning
contractor linked to the Belforte di Marcianise clan of the
Camorra mafia, while he was a public health manager in Caserta.
The former mayor has been under house arrest since he was
detained in November 2013 along with other public health
officials and politicians, including Angelo Polverino, a former
regional councilmember from Silvio Berlusconi's now-defunct
People of Freedom (PdL) party.
They were all accused of colluding with the clan by
accepting bribes in exchange for hospital cleaning contracts
from Grillo.
The latter has been convicted of a Camorra-related murder,
and is doing time under the 41bis prison regime for Italy's most
dangerous criminals.
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