With the mayor also involved 23 other former councilors, managers and municipal area heads. The financial police allegedly ascertained numerous irregularities between 2016 and 2019
Orlando became metropolitan mayor of Palermo in 2017, supported by a coalition made up of various civic lists linked to the Democratic Party and to Popular Alternative.
Lega: it’s time to vote for no confidence – The leader of the League in the municipal council in Palermo Igor Gelarda and the deputy councilor Marianna Caronia commented on the news as follows: “The judges will establish the possible criminal responsibilities of the mayor and other suspects and until then the presumption of innocence. But it is clear that there is an entirely political problem when the Municipality is starting to financially fail and has already been in total functional failure for some time.
“False in public deed” – The accusation contested by the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office is “false material committed by a public official in a public act”. The magistrates in their provision explain: “The public officials signed and sent to the General Accounting Office some forms of forecast of overestimated revenue (taking into account the data – known to them – of the actual assessments of revenue in previous years) thus misleading the Palermo city council on the truth of the act, determining it to adopt the resolution with which the budget was approved “.
Budget estimates and management reports – A chapter among the accusations concerns the budget estimates, another the management reports. In Orlando, a directive of 18 June 2018 is also contested “for having in a public deed authentic up to a complaint of false … exposed false data and in particular reported credits to be recognized / settled by the Municipality towards investee companies lower than those real “.
False payables to the transport company – The reference is to the debts of the Municipality towards Amat, the company that manages public transport in the city: they would have been “falsely quantified in only 197 thousand euros, for the year 2016, against the company’s credits without any expense commitments equal to 8 million and 890 thousand euros “.
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