Ex Campania regional tourism assessor in Camorra probe Politician was former UDC regional coordinator
(ANSA) - Caserta, July 20 - A former regional councillor for tourism in the government of Campania, Pasquale Sommese, has been placed under investigation on suspicion of links to Camorra crime gangs as part of a wider probe of the mob, police sources said Monday.
Sommese was until April the regional coordinator for the Union of the Democratic Centre (UDC) party, set up by former members of the old Mafia-plagued Christian Democrat party.
He was placed under investigation by the Naples Anti-mafia police department as part of an inquiry into links between the underworld and politicians in the Caserta area near Naples which climaxed with the arrest of 11 businessmen, former mayors and former regional councillors last week.
Sommese and 17 other people had their homes searched as part of the inquiry.
