Millions seized from Venaria Palace ex-superintendent

(ANSA) - Turin, February 1 - Finance police on Monday seized real estate worth 2.2 million euros from the former superintendent of the Palace of Venaria, a former royal residence and UNESCO World Heritage site.
    Francesco Pernice in 2014 plea-bargained a year and 11 months in prison for abuse of office, bid-rigging, and corruption in connection with contracts to renovate the Palace of Venaria and other historic residences in the northern Piedmont region. Co-defendant Ezio Enrietti, a builder and a Socialist who served as governor of Piedmont in 1980-1983, pled a year and six months in the same case.
    The assets were seized on orders of the Piedmont Audit Court "to ensure compensation to the public administrations that were the damaged parties" in the case, finance police said.