Unveiling the Battipaglia scandal

Bribes, patronage and sexual favors were part of a apparently in the municipal administration of Battipaglia and the Casalesi clan to manage the contract business. The public prosecutor's office Elena Cosentino applied for 8 years of imprisonment for the former mayor of Battipaglia, Giovanni Santomauro, a key figure in the study that culminated in May 2013 when the former mayor was accommodated among two municipalities in home arrest. Entrepreneurs from Caserta, Nicola Madonna, who was considered close to the Caalesi clan and Attilio Guida by the investigators. The application was formalized yesterday by the magistrate in front of the committee of the first criminal section and according to the statements of the former mayor, who had concluded the process procedure through his warm defense. The prosecutor has applied for convicts for all accused, with the exception of Analoni, which was supported by lawyer Michele Tedesco for whom the acquittal was requested. The magistrate has applied for 2 years for Pasqual Angione, former director of the technical territorial operating area. 2 years for Fausto Dragonetti, director of the technical territor; 4 years for Nicola Madonna and Attilio Guida, the two entrepreneurs who carried out public work in Battipaglia. A stricter corruption, the abuse of public lawyers, the bidding, extortion and fictional registration of assets are the alleged crimes to the main numbers in the investigation, which was born after a complaint by a municipal employee. The position of the former mayor is more complex from an accused perspective, which was supported by lawyer Cecchino Cacciatore, and also accused sexual extortion, since according to the theory of the public prosecutor, he supposedly offered jobs in exchange for sexual relationships. At the center of the process remains the work for the completion of the parish hall, a number of construction work and securing the intersection between Via Mintoni and over Belvedere worth over 5 million euros. The work was allegedly awarded by companies that were managed by the Casalesi. According to the public prosecutor, the mechanism to secure the contracts was traditionally. Thanks to an offer with an auction discount of 34%, the Emini Company, which will later be due to bankruptcy and the Bidognetti clan of the Casalesi, allegedly won the contract for the conclusion of the town house. According to the company's bankruptcy, two different companies, Mediasud and Guida Impianti SRL, which were both controlled by the Madonna family by the Madonna family, allegedly took over the contract with unauthorized subordinate and a branch.