De Luca under investigation for forgery and fraud

Published on: 07/09/2020 11:26 AM

He was born from a traffic accident the investigation of the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office involving the president of the Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, under investigation for forgery and fraud in connection with the appointment of 4 traffic policemen from Salerno to positions of responsibility in the Secretariat of the President of the Regional Council. The traffic accident in question dates back to September 15, 2017, when a 22-year-old girl on board a scooter was run over by De Luca’s car that was traveling on the Giovanni Negri road in the opposite direction, as allowed by an Ordinance of the municipality of 2008 (year in which De Luca was mayor of Salerno) for the “vehicles of the police force”.

Driving the president’s car sat Claudio Postiglione, an employee of the Municipal Police of Salerno, appointed by decree of the president of the regional council in the president’s secretariat (with the function ‘Relations with regional structures and local institutions) along with three other colleagues : Gianfranco Baldi, appointed Head of Relations with the State-Regions Conference, Unified Conference and national legislative bodies, Giuseppe Muro, appointed Head of Relations with Regional Councilors, and Giuseppe Polverino, appointed Head of Relations with the Office of the Presidency of the Regional Council , all for the entire duration of the presidential term.

Decrees 62, 63, 64 and 65 of March 10, 2016 are precisely those that have come under the scrutiny of the Neapolitan magistrates. But the detail of the Salerno traffic police who was driving the car of the president of the Campania Region did not escape the opposition and, in particular, the then regional councilor of Forza Italia Severino Nappi (now candidate of the League): in this sense , on 20 September 2017, Nappi submitted a question addressed to the head of the cabinet of the president of the regional council, the director general of human resources of the regional council, the prosecutor of Naples and the prosecutor of the Court of Accounts of Campania

In the question, Nappi asked to know “the reasons why the car with the bodywork used by the President of the Executive Branch is usually driven by personnel other than one of the approximately 20 employees in the role of the regional administration framed with the functions of driver “. “and the regulatory provisions” by virtue of which such assignment is allowed to subjects assigned and assigned to perform different functions “and” that allow to attribute to public employees in this context an economic treatment corresponding to that of manager “.

Finally, Nappi asked to know “the correspondence with the truth that Gianfranco Baldi, Giuseppe Muro and Giuseppe Polverino have also been attributed similar functions of the Postiglione and similar economic treatment corresponding to that of manager, all of them employees of the Municipality of Salerno with a classification in the roles of the local municipal police and all under the command of the autonomous administration ”.