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“An unscrupulous personality who does not care about respect for the rules, inspired by a strictly commercial and personalist logic, even at the cost of collective security.” The magistrate of Genoa, Paola Faggioni, also motivates the scope of the house arrest to Giovanni castellucci, former CEO of Autostrade, investigated in the new investigation by the Genoa prosecutor’s office for an attack on transport security and fraud on defective and potentially dangerous sound absorbing barriers. A manager who “has always had full control of Aspi and for a long time also for Atlantia and, despite his resignation from the group, there is a current and concrete danger of evidentiary contamination and recidivism of crimes ”. A contamination that another former manager was also questioned, ended up under house arrest, Michele Donferri Mitelli, who according to an interception, after his dismissal asked a colleague to remove from his office the documents on the Polcevera, or the collapsed Morandi bridge.
Castellucci, since 2001 on Highways: from Avellino to Genoa – Castellucci in Autostrade had arrived in 2001, named by the Benetton family. First general manager, then he also became CEO from 2005 to January 2019. In 2006 he also assumed the position of CEO of the Autostrade Group, which later became Atlantia. In the trial for the massacre of the bus that fell in 2013 from a viaduct near Avellino is acquitted in the first instanceBut from the documents presented it is clear that this acquittal could have come thanks to the version of a former executive who was convicted in that trial: “If I told the truth, I killed him.” The deaths in that terrifying accident were 40, three less than the Morandi Bridge.
It ends up again on the register of suspects for the collapse of the Genoa bridge on August 14, 2018. It also attracts much controversy for the late apology that followed the tragedy. Meanwhile, the distance between the Benetton family grows. Castellucci decides to resign first from the management of Aspi, which in January 2019 becomes Roberto Tomasi, then, on September 17, 2019, he also leaves Atlantia. He leaves with a maximum compensation of 13 million, which is highly criticized. However, three months later, the board decides to suspend the payment. And so it is easy to understand that Castellucci, by whose arrest lawyers express “amazement and concern”, he could still be very close to everyone and be very powerful. Could, according to the investigating judge, “pilot your collaborators, also under investigation, influencing his statements ”as happened with Avellino’s trial according to the investigators. In addition, he was “perfectly aware of the problematic situation of the barriers and constantly informed about the decisions to manage them, which has fully endorsed and endorsed“.
But not only: “He has always had full control of Aspi and for a long time also of Atlantia and, despite his resignation from the group, there is a current and concrete danger of contamination of evidence and recidivism of crimes of the same species as those for whom we proceed. “For the judge,” the danger of evidentiary contamination is also concrete and current, taking into account the close contacts with the other suspects, with whom in the past he has always maintained an artificial conduct of reality in such a way that it reasonably induces to believe that the above, reiterating the same modus operandi, Develop a common strategy and convenience versions, as investigations are still ongoing.“.
Former executive accused of diverting investigation – The reference is for Michele Donferri Mitelli, former maintenance manager who ended up under house arrest, considered by the investigating judge “the creator and main architect of the contested criminal conduct.” Donferri is the one who tries to convince Paolo Berti, former central operating director of the company, to continue occupying the line of the company in the Avellino case and in the position of Castellucci. Without neglecting the episode, described by the judge, of the theft of documents on the Morandi bridge “,deflect investigationImmediately after his dismissal. Donferri asks a colleague to bring a “nice big car, let’s start. I have to start taking the file there at the Polcevera, that’s my thing”, the colleague makes himself available and the other “the file my plan little by little. Little a little thing a day there are wooden boxes for you to print the photo and what is inside. ”In the same way, reports the investigating judge, the suspect had asked the secretary, via WhatsApp, to” secretly steal the documentation “and then recommend that the messages be deleted. Then there is the reference to a report from the traffic police about the failure of barrier on the Rio Rczza. Document that was not found and on which Donferri claims to have managed to “clarify” the issue.
Then there is the case of the Giustina viaduct that the investigating judge remembers and reports widely. The restoration work would have cost “triple” by the rules. And Donferri is looking for a solution as it arises from an interception in August 2017: “…to the limit we use lightened concrete …“. The suspect was activated in November 2018 also so that Castellucci, summoned to the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office for questioning, would not be attacked by journalists. Donferri also contacted General Carabinieri Franco Mottola so that the then CEO is protected. And “The observation service confirmed that on 11/28/2018, on the occasion of Castellucci’s interrogation, the provincial commander of the Carabinieri and the commander of the Genoa Centro company were present in front of the court.” Which for the judge represents “the extraordinary capacity to exert strong pressure and influence even on the police. “
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