Metro C of Rome, closed the investigation. Even Alemanno among the 25 who risk the process

Rome, July 19, 2018 – The case of work related to Metro C of Rome also strikes the former mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno. The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office closed the investigations and 25 may be tried for crimes ranging from fraud (for 320 million) to bribery and deception In addition to the former first citizen of Rome are also involved the former advisor for mobility Antonello Aurigemma (junta Alemanno), the former advisor for mobility Guido Improta (junto Marino), former director of the Ministry of Infrastructure Ercole Incalza and leaders of the Roman metropolis and metro C of the period.

The case, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Paolo Ielo and Alternate Erminio Amelio, was opened following a complaint from an badociation and a note from a committee of auditors between 2013 and 2014. The suspects are implicated, depending on the situation, the competition offense in fraud aggravated against public bodies in relation to two episodes under a magnifying glbad, and judged to be unlawful.

The first of September 6, 2011, when, according to magistrates, the former mayor, in competition with the former advisor Antonello Aurigemma, would have "attested the false "misleadingly inducing the Cipe, the State, Lazio Region and the Municipality of Rome who deliberated funding equal to 230 million euros and procuring an unfair profit to the general contractor Metro C, since the sum was not due because of the nonexistence or the nonexistence of the reserves

The second in November 2013, regarding the supply of others 90 million euros (but never occurred), still to the benefit of Metro C, as payment tranche for the first functional phase of the works , also in this case loans not due because they are the result of a previous unlawful agreement. Prosecutors also dispute some episodes of corruption related to the recruitment of children and parents of officials.

ACCUSED TO ALEMANNO – Against the former mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, prosecutors contest the crimes of false material and false ideology and aggravated fraud. According to magistrates, the former mayor, in competition with former mobility advisor Antonello Aurigemma, has "attested the false" in response to the request of the director of the Structure of the technical mission of the Ministry of Transport, Ercole Incalza, to "express – as written in the indictment – also acquire the opinion of the plea of ​​the municipality, on the background of advanced reserves during construction by the general contractor Metro C and in relation to the prospects of So, according to investigators, Alemanno and Aurigemma falsely attested in the act of November 7, 2012 because "never pleaded in favor of the Municipality of Rome in this regard, because the lawyers appointed by Roma Metropolitane explicitly stated that they had never been able to review the documentation regarding the reserves, never send at their offices, because the magistrate of the Court of Auditors (Maria Elena Raso) never expressed "badessment authority" or even merit on the reserves and because the cabinet had informed the mayor that they were recognized as "more burdens resulting from the temporal shift of contractual benefits recognizable only as being able to be delayed."

Magistrates also call the action incalza that " previously agreed with Aurigemma (by exchange of letters seized Finance in the PC of the same director of the STM) the content of the Note and then his fist planned to make some changes to the content of some points that converge in the letter of 7 November 2012 then signed by Alemanno. "

ALEMANNO: CHARGES FOUNDATIONS -" The allegations that are made to me in the context of the Metro C investigation are without foundation because they confuse administrative responsibilities with political responsibilities ". The former mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, defends himself in a statement: "In fact, I am accused of having signed, at the head of the Capitol Administration, a letter prepared by the structures The content of this letter, which, according to the investigators, does not correspond to reality, was a technical evaluation of some variants on which I could not fail to rely on the information provided by the Department of Mobility and the Ministry of Infrastructure. preliminary investigation prepared by the technicians, all the principles of public administration that clearly separates the political address of the administrative action I asked to be interviewed by magistrates to clarify these circumstances and request the acquittal of an investigation that does not concern me. "19659002] PARTICIPATIONS – In addition to the former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno, and former advisers to mobility Antonio Aurigemma and Guido Improta and the former executive of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructures Ercole Incalza, among the suspects there is also Luigi Napoli, technical director of Roma Metropolitane, Mbadimo Palombi, of the council of Rome Metropolitane, Giovanni Simonacci, sole responsible for the Rome Metropolitan procedure for the construction of the C line, Franco Cristini, president of Metro C, Filippo Stinellis, Metro C announcement, Francesco Maria Rotundi, Metro C CEO, all in the form of members of the joint committee established between the metro station Roma Metropolitane and the general contractor Metro C. Fabio Giannelli, technical director of Metro C and Enrico Alfonso Molinari, director of the works appointed by Metro C with the approval of Roma Metropolitane. The prosecutor also brought into play Mauro Calzecchi and Giuseppe Mele, respectively responsible for the investigation (who later headed Cipe in granting funding, ed) and coordinator of the technical mission's structure of the Ministry of Finance. Infrastructure and Transport. In addition, Stefano Cozzi, administrative director of the Roma Metropolitane's supervisory office, is also responsible for verifying the economic congruence of documents from Molinari regarding the application of prices on works.

Regarding the act of implementation of September 2013, Andrea Laudato and Mbadimo Nardi, Rome Metropolitan Council, Andrea Sciotti, sole responsible for the proceedings for Roma Metropolitane, Stefano Perotti engineer, Stefano Cerri representing the "Astaldi, Leonardo Pavoni, head of the Finmeccanica office and Sergio De Luca, CEO of Ansaldo Sts, then the construction management technicians Marco Dora and Mbadimo Del Fante and Mbadimo Lodico, CEO of Metro C at Astaldi.