Failure to collect rents from
municipal properties over the years has resulted in a shortfall
of 133 million euro in the coffers of Naples city council, the
public prosecutor's office of the Campania regional audit court
said on Wednesday.
The claim came in a notification order served by Carabinieri
police on seven suspects including the headmistress of a local
school, city council employees and employees of the in-house
company Napoli Servizi for allegedly failing to contest "the
clamorous delays in collection of Napoli Servizi, allowing the
accumulation over time of significant and stratospheric
arrears".
The seven are accused of causing over 92,000 euro in damage in
relation to uncollected rent and unpaid water bills on the
school caretaker's house, which was occupied illegally in 1988.
The investigators said there are similar situations of unlawful
occupation involving unpaid rent at other Naples schools.
The audit court denounced the "serious negligence" on the part
of the Naples authorities "in the management of its real estate
assets and in the collection of rents and/or occupation
indemnities" despite the so-called Pact for Naples involving
conditional state funding.
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