Valle D'Aosta governor in mafia probe
Suspected 'Ndrangheta involvement in 2018 election

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/pol...37648ac-226a-41db-b3e4-c7de06693343.html

13 December 2019

(ANSA) - Aosta, December 13 - Valle D'Aosta Governor Antonio Fosson has been placed under investigation for alleged vote-trading linked to a mafia group, sources said Friday.
The Turin-based probe is looking into alleged influence by the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta in the 2018 elections in the northwestern region. Other local and regional councillors have also been placed under investigation as part of the probe.


Ndrangheta, “political earthquake” in the Aosta Valley. "The bosses dictate the line to the Region". Investigated president and councilors
by Enrico Marcoz
13 Dec 2019

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/19...ea-a6e9-db5db58fc7bb.shtml?refresh_ce-cp

The shocking report by the prosecutor Valerio Longi: conditioned the last elections of 2018, contacts of the clans with the last three former presidents. Governor Fosson disputed the exchange vote


The ‘ndrangheta has conditioned the regional elections of 2018 in Valle d’Aosta. To say the prosecutor Valerio Longi of the Dda of Turin, holder of the investigation «Egomnia». In the 243 pages of an annotation produced in another trial on the mafia infiltrations at the foot of Mont Blanc (the operation Gehenna that last January led to 17 arrests including that of a regional councilor) describes the strategy of the mafia association, headed by brothers Marco and Roberto Di Donato, who supported some candidates of the autonomous forces in order to "enjoy a debt of gratitude" and "to have a greater number of faithful councilors in the regional assembly". The current president of the Region, Antonio Fosson, is under investigation for mafia political electoral exchange. In addition to this, the regional councilors Laurent Vie'rin (tourism and cultural heritage), former president of the Region, and Stefano Borrello (public works) and the regional councilor Luca Bianchi have also received a guarantee notice.