Finance police on Thursday arrested
Franco Alfieri, the current mayor of Capaccio Paestum and
president of the province of Salerno, in the southern Campania
region, a member of the centre-left opposition Democratic Party
(PD).
Five others were also involved on charges of illegitimately
influencing public tenders, corruption and abuse of public
office.
Alfieri was jailed as part of the probe while five others were
placed under house arrest: Vittorio De Rosa and Alfonso D'Auria,
respectively the legal representative and special manager of the
company Dervit Spa; Elvira Alfieri, sister of Franco Alfieri and
legal representative of the business Alfieri Impianti S.r.l.;
Andrea Campanile, an employee of the municipality of Capaccio
and a member of the mayor's staff; and Carmine Greco, a head
technician who worked for the municipality of Capaccio.
In addition, finance police seized over 543,000 euros in assets.
The probe concerned a number of procedures to assign public
contracts, in particular two contracts to renovate the public
lighting system in Capaccio Paestum, among others.
Both tenders for the job were won by Dervit Spa with suspects
allegedly cooperating so the company would win the bid,
according to investigators.
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