Four defendants in a Capital Mafia
case into corruption in maintenance and construction contracts
at Roma people camps have submitted plea bargain requests to
prosecutors, sources said Friday.
Capital Mafia is a sprawling case comprising several different
trials into a criminal ring of gangsters, businessmen and
politicians that muscled in on lucrative Rome city contracts in
trash, migrant reception centers, Roma people camps, and public
parks maintenance.
A total of 17 people are on trial for corruption, bid-rigging
and issuing fake invoices in connection with contracts to carry
out work on the Romani people camp case between the end of 2013
and the end of 2014.
The defendants include a former official at the City Hall
Department for Health and Social Policies, Emanuela Salvatori,
who has already been convicted and sentenced to four years in
prison in a separate Capital Mafia case.
Also a defendant is businessman Loris Talone, a cabinet
member for agriculture in the town of Artena south of Rome.
Those trying to plea out were named as cooperative
administrator Roberto Chierici (who proposed three years five
months in prison and the restitution of 75,000 euros), Rome
municipal police officer Eliseo De Luca (two years nine months,
50,000 euros), businessman Massimo Colangeli (two years and
40,000 euros), and company manager Giuseppe Sesto (one and a
half years).
The four were charged with corruption, false accounting, and
issuing fake invoices for non-existent operations.
A preliminary hearings judge will have to approve their
pleas.
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