A former member of Sicily's
regional assembly was convicted of graft and sentenced to seven
years on Thursday for activities in the green energy sector.
Gaspare Vitrano, a former member of the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD), was arrested in March 2011 while he was
pocketing a 10,000-euro bribe from a businessman operating in
the photovoltaic industry.
Prosecutors said Vitrano and Mario Bonomo, ex coordinator
of the party Allies for Sicily, facilitated the activities of
two companies in which they held majority stakes but which were
formally registered in someone else's name.
Bonomo is being tried in separate proceedings.
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