Emilia, 1.2 million euro to the coop of the wife of the parent company Pd

View the election campaign in Emilia Romagna and it almost seems that the center of gravity of the clash has moved from Bologna to Ferrara. It is in the territories of the Este city, conquered in June by the Northern League player Alan Fabbri, that the parties strike each other without excluding blows. In the beginning was theaudio by A clean sweep on the “Solaroli case”, then the querelle on the “boycott of the Democratic Party” against Jolanda di Savoia and now the clash over the “coop system” in red clay. The j’accuse Northern League it concerns a cooperative managed by the wife of a former councilor of the Ferrara district. A hot topic.

There coop in question it was called “ACLI Coccinelle”, founded from Aldo Modenesi (today parent Pd in ​​the City Council) and over the years managed also from his wife Paola Coluzzi. The co-op has now failed: the compulsory administrative liquidation dates back to 2016 and spoke of a “negative shareholders’ equity of 491 thousand euros”. A long-running affair, with political quarrels that have lasted for some time between questions, interpellations and so on. In 2018 Coluzzi was indicted on charges of unlawful influence on the assembly of the cooperative. According to the prosecution he would drafted false reports to “continue to manage decisions independently” for the coop, such as reports the local news. Then in October 2019 yes go back to talking of the trial and controversy between parties explodes. “There is an ongoing process and it does not concern me – Modenesi defends himself – and it does not concern crimes that refer to the activity of the Municipality of Ferrara or other public administrations”. Obviously it will be for the judges to decide. But judicial troubles aside, it is the kinship with the ex-councilor that warms up the political clash. Especially in the face of the “important figure” that over time the city he bestowed on the coop.

The group advises the Northern League in October asked the current junta to provide all data regarding the “relations between the Municipality of Ferrara and the cooperative over the years of the Tagliani administration, when the director Aldo Modonesi held the post of councilor”. The offices have gone to work and the final numbers speak of an overall figure of about 1.2 million euros. From the data of the educational institution it appears that since 2009 the coop – explained in the classroom the Councilor for Education Dorota Kusiak – was the direct recipient of sums paid by the Municipality of Ferrara for 617 thousand euros. Then there are the money received indirectly through consortia and winning associations of tenders (of which the coop was a member) for over 200 thousand euros. While around 430 thousand euros concern services performed for other sectors of the Municipality or prior to the formation of theEducational institution (which has separate budget). After all, the cash register between invoices and contributions therefore marks around 1.2 million euros from 2002 to 2016.

The Giornale.it he was able to read some details of the funds allocated over the years by Ferrara to the Coccinelle. For the contract of five places in agreement at a nursery in Monestirolo, for example, the documents show between 2014 and 2015 a good 41,762 euros assigned by the coop. For another agreement (2008-2015) at the nest of Gualdo di Voghiera, however, he received 32,480 euros. Then there are the contributions to the kindergarten (“Le Coccinelle” and “SS Vincenzo e Anastasio”) from 2010 to 2015, for a total of 60,737 euros. And the “conciliatory vauchers” for “the reduction of the tuition fee” in six school years from 63,657 euros. It must be said that part of the figures were paid to Equitalia and in others the payment was suspended. But the substance changes little. The most substantial amounts concern the contracts for the pre-school of primary school pupils: from 109 to 2013, approximately 109 thousand euros were paid. Finally, to complete the picture, there are the summer recreation centers for which, between the 2013 and in 2014, the Municipality paid another 18 thousand euros to ACLI.

For Modenesi, the Northern League thrust is only “political propaganda” which “looks a little” comes out “on the occasion of each election campaign” for the regional ones. But for the Northern League it is “very serious and scandalous” that “in the years in which the situation of the Coccinelle coop was emerging and also later when it was now evident and full-blown, no councilor of the Pd junta, let alone the former councilor Modonesi believed to detect in the relations between the Municipality and the cooperative is nothing objectionable, and indeed it was the mayor Tagliani himself who denied the presence of any conflict of interest “. In conclusion: Ferrara it’s the battlefield again. At least until Sunday.

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