Trial risk for ten people involved in the last strand of the maxi-investigation on the new stadium in Rome. The Prosecutor served the closing document to the suspects including the president of the Capitoline Assembly Marcello De Vito and the lawyer Camillo Mezzacapo (already on trial for a corruption story), the builders Pierluigi and Claudio Toti, Giuseppe Statuto and Luca Parnasi (also already on trial in the main vein). The disputed crimes, depending on the positions, are corruption, tax crimes and influence trafficking.
The accusation against De Vito, Mezzacapo and the builders Toti and Statuto is of bribes in exchange for favors for projects related to the redevelopment of the former General Markets and of the area of the old Trastevere station. De Vito, it is written in the indictment, "abusing the quality and powers of president of the municipal council of Roma Capitale induced Pierluigi Toti and Claudio Toti, interested in the administrative procedure pending at the Municipality of Rome and relating to the approval of the project redevelopment of the former General Markets (procedure which was in a stall phase and a cause of great concern for the Toti) to confer a professional assignment to the law firm of Camillo Mezzacapo suggesting that only in this way could the administrative procedure be unlocked ". A "assignment that was remunerated with an amount of over 110 thousand euros transferred" to the law firm of Mezzacapo and transferred by the latter "for the total amount of 48 thousand euros on an account in the name of a company attributable to Mezzacapo and De Vito".
By-laws has instead "disbursed in favor of De Vito and Mezzacapo" over € 24 thousand, a sum paid in the form of a professional assignment "to the law firm of Mezzacapo and transferred by the latter for the total amount of € 16 thousand to a bank account. company attributable to Mezzacapo and De Vito "in exchange for an intervention" in the administrative procedure for the issue of the permit
building, with change of intended use and expansion, of a building in Viale Trastevere in the former station area ".
Meanwhile Caltagirone denies
"Going to see a derby every now and then is pleasant and fun. Everything else is pure fantasy." This was stated by Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone who thus intends to disprove the rumors about his interest in the dossier on the construction of the stadium after he went to watch the Rome-Lazio match last Sunday. The denial replies to the rumors, fed on social media, that Dan Friedkin, engaged in the purchase of the road, wanted to start the construction of a new stadium with a different project from that of Tor di Valle.