San Cataldo, the hands of the Mafia on procurement: 16 arrests, there are also officials of the Municipality

The hands of the Mafia on public contracts managed by the City of San Cataldo in the waste and construction sectors. Sixteen precautionary measures were taken for people close to our Nissena, municipal officials and entrepreneurs.

At the conclusion of complex investigations in the areas of the fight against organized crime and crimes against the Public Administration, coordinated by the Dda of Caltanissetta, patrols of the financial police financial police force group together with the soldiers of the Carabinieri of Caltanissetta have performed a 'order of personal precautionary measures against sixteen people, issued by the investigating judge of the court of Caltanissetta.

Among the people investigated are people close to the Mafia family of San Cataldo, officials and managers of the Municipality and a carabiniere in service.
Following the investigations, the investigating judge issued an order for custody in prison for the mafia association, an external competition in association with the Mafia and aggravated extortions against eight people considered close to the Mafia family of San Cataldo: Gioacchino Chitè; Calogero Maurizio Di Vita; Massimo Scalzo; Luigi Vivacqua; Cristian Ivan Callari; Alessandro Scalzo; Angelo Giumento; Domenico Terenzio, carabiniere in service at the tenness of San Cataldo.

While the house arrest was ordered for aggravated extortion for Salvatore Raimondi, a person considered to be inside the mafia family of San Cataldo; the entrepreneur legal representative of Ecolgest soc.coop. to r.l accused of corruption and troubled freedom of the charms; the former director of the technical office of the Municipality of San Cataldo Paolo Iannello.

The precautionary measure of the obligation to submit to the judicial police for corruption offenses against the employee of the Municipality of San Cataldo Medico was ordered; the freelance engineer Davide Francesco Iannello, the employee of the Municipality of San Cataldo Salvatore Schifano; the freelance architect, recipient of assignments by the municipality of San Cataldo Alfonso Gaetano Ippolito.

The investigation, coordinated by the Dda of Caltanissetta, began in 2016. The investigators were monitoring the assets of the Mafia family of San Cataldo. In the first phase of the investigations, carried out by the Carabinieri of Caltanissetta, mafia infiltrations emerged in the management of the urban solid waste removal service taken by the Municipality of San Cataldo.

The mafia family with intimidation would have imposed the cooperative "Geo Agriturismo" of San Cataldo, which with the company "Ecolgest" was responsible for the collection of solid urban waste, the continued recruitment of characters close to the mafia family who would often perceive the salary without carrying out any work activity.

From the investigation would have emerged several episodes of extortion by the Mafia family of San Cataldo at the top of which there would be Calogero Maurizio Di Vita, Gioacchino Chitè, Massimo Scalzo, Raimondo Scalzo and Luigi Vivacqua.

The interception activities would have made it possible to ascertain that Paolo Iannello, already head of the Municipal Technical Office of San Cataldo, together with his son Davide Francesco, had reached corrective agreements with Liborio Lipari, administrator of the company "Ecolgest", to disturb the administrative regularity of the public tender tender to allow it to be awarded to the "Multiecoplast" company of Messina, leader of ATI with the aforementioned "Ecolgest" company participating in the tender.

The interception activities carried out by the personnel of the Carabinieri of Caltanissetta revealed that Domenico Terenzio, a soldier of the Arma in service at the carabinieri of San Cataldo, systematically informed members of the Mafia group or their joint investigations: he was charged with allegations of violation of official secrecy, forgery and, above all, external competition in the mafia association.