Fragomeni & family between pocketed Covid bonuses and masks to be placed
VENICE – Theaccuse from the Prosecutor of Venice is one of those able to leave an indelible mark on a career and a life: having speculated about the pandemic. When state and local governments suddenly found themselves at the forefront of managing asanitary emergency unprecedented, in the moment in which an anvil had to be made between the anger of those who were forced to close their businesses and the frustration of those who saw their loved ones die devoured by the virus, someone, according to the investigators, would have taken the ball to draw from it profit and benefits. Among these there would have been, according to the hypothesis of the investigators, also the mayor of Santa Maria di Sala Nicola Fragomeniwhich he had started with the ? a Business on the sale of personal protective equipment.
But it’s not just the operation of the car: the Public Prosecutor’s Office, in fact, would also contest the former mayor for having stolen i good shopping Covid reserved for needy families. A story in which she would also have been involved wife of the former mayor: for i carabinieriwho conducted the investigation with eavesdropping and environmental for three yearsFragomeni would have appropriated about fifty vouchers (worth ten euros each, totaling around 500 euros) which he would then spend together with his wife at Christmas 2021. Fragomeni and his wife, in fact, would have used them in some supermarkets del Padovano and Santa Maria di Sala, which is why they would both be investigated on charges of embezzlement. In any case, the investigating judge did not consider that it was necessary to issue a precautionary measure for this crime.
THE MASKS
According to the judge for the preliminary investigations of Venice, Antonio Liguori, the business on the masks had accelerated when the Fragomeni group – in fact managed by Giovambattista Fragomeni, Nicola’s brother – had jumped on supply of public bodies, from some neighboring Municipalities, to local transport companies, to service companies. The turning point has a precise date, March 13, 2020. After a meeting of the Conference of mayors del Veneziano in the headquarters of Ulss 3 Serenissima, Nicola Fragomeni and his brother had decided to broaden their horizons by focusing strongly on the basin from which they could draw thanks to a Chinese supplier, a «Tommy tale». As the ordinance reconstructs, there was the possibility of importing 100,000 of them, buying them at a price of 0.56 euros and then reselling them “with a consequent substantial profit”.
THE LEAP IN QUALITY
«The evening of 13 March 2020 represents a crucial moment in the business of the Fragomeni brothers, in fact, if up to that moment he had seen private companies involved in the business, from that moment on public companies were also sent», writes the investigating judge Liguori. Which also outlines the roles of the two brothers: «The mayor, on the strength of his public position and relationships with other state bodies or companies supplying public services, had the task of procuring customers; Giovambattista Fragomeni, with the Fragomeni Group, the task of weaving relationships with the foreign supplier as well as anticipating the sums necessary to purchase and import the product».
I DOUBT
In the ordinance, however, there is room for doubts about the goodness of the masks distributed. During a phone call in which the supplier is mentioned, Giovambattista Fragomeni tells his brother «that “they found the box with the CE written” and the mayor: “Great” thus raising – underlines the investigating judge – the doubts about the regularity of the devices they were going to import ». On this point (i.e. on the European Community brand, a guarantee of the goodness of the product), «the mayor, speaking of a batch of masks, was referring to his brother to tell the supplier Tommy that it was necessary to supply other boxes with the CE marking». That there was a need not to have the house company appear in the invoices was clear to the former mayor himself. Therefore, three other companies issued the false bubbles to the institutions.
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