Calabria: Concussion and abuse, mayor arrested – Calabria

An operation of the Provincial Rifle Command of Reggio Calabria took place in the early hours of the morning in Palizzi for the execution of preventive custody orders, issued as part of the 39; an investigation on the municipality of Reggio, against 4 people held responsible, in various ways and with the complicity of 21 other topics, among others extortion and bribery. Among the recipients of the measure were Mayor Arturo Walter Scerbo, 56, and two councilors whose identity had not been disclosed at the time.

Mayor Scerbo and the two city councilors are also charged with crimes of abuse of power, embezzlement, wrongful inductions to give or promise benefits, ideological lies and fraud attempts against the state. The three public administrators, with the complicity of other suspects, including the resigning directors and the employees of the institution, would have repeatedly fired on the coffers of the municipality issuing payment orders for reimbursement of expenses. inflated in their favor, to pay third parties or for services other than those for which funds have been allocated. The investigations established that the damage caused to the municipal administration was about 340,000 euros.