Mafia: Swap vote in Latina, two arrests

by | Jul 16, 2021 | Italy | 0 comments

The League MEP Matteo Adinolfi is also under investigation in the investigation of the Dda of Rome for an exchange vote on the occasion of the administrative elections for the renewal of the Latina City Council on June 5, 2016. The accusation is exchange against him electoral mafia politician.
The businessman who ended up under house arrest is Raffaele Del Prete.
Two arrests in Latina for mafia political electoral exchange. Police and carabinieri carried out a precautionary custody order under house arrest, issued by the investigating judge of Rome at the request of the Capitoline DDA. The measures concern an entrepreneur, operating in the waste sector, and one of his collaborators. According to the accusation, on the occasion of the administrative elections of 2016 in Latina, the two, upon payment of a sum of 45 thousand euros to members of the Di Silvio clan, ensured the award of at least two hundred votes to the candidate leader in the “Noi con Salvini” list “, in the neighborhoods of influence of the clan.
The restrictive measure is linked to the findings acquired in two different investigations carried out by the Carabinieri of the Aprilia Territorial Department and by the agents of the Latina and Rome Mobile Teams, with the support and collaboration of the Central Operational Service of the State Police.
The investigations are also based on what was declared by the collaborators of justice Agostino Riccardo and Renato Pugliese who confirmed what was ascertained by the military of the Arma. In particular, it was documented that the collaborator Riccardo, investigated in competition in today’s provision, was found to be the intermediary for the Mafia political agreement between the criminal group and the entrepreneur operating in the waste sector. Riccardo received a sort of investiture by the Di Silvio in dealing with relations with the politics of the province of Latina and on the occasion of the 2016 elections, through the entrepreneur, to support the candidacy of a politician from the list “Noi per Salvini “as well as the posting of the posters relating to the candidate.
The payment of the 45 thousand euros took place in three installments within the company; on the basis of the illicit agreement, none of the members of the Di Silvio family would have had to show up at the party headquarters, to avoid appearing as a “collector” of votes “procured by a person within the clan”, while the entrepreneur would have had the communications to the clan exclusively through the repentant. The election of the politician would have been for the Pontine entrepreneur functional to the economic strategies of his company to probably obtain a monopoly in the management of waste and reclamation in the Pontine territory.