The Fiumicino Border Police carried out 5 pre-trial detention orders against some owners of companies operating in the Roman airport and a senior ENAC official.
In addition to the arrested, two well-known Roman lawyers are also investigated, as well as other entrepreneurs and officials of the same body.
The operation, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Civitavecchia, made it possible to acquire evidence against the suspects who regularly subsidized public officials to fly over a series of irregularities, which could lead to the revocation of the certifications necessary for working in the airport. .
The arrested official, a 58-year-old man, was systematically remunerated with all sorts of benefits, from the full cost of the car, to free travel, to the provision of a luxury car, as well as to the payment of telepass services and ordinary and extraordinary maintenance the family machine park; of course, he did not disdain the cash payments that took place through the passage of the classic "bribes".
The investigations of the policemen made use of telephone and environmental interception systems, which made it possible to ascertain how the only purpose pursued by ENAC officials was to obtain a profit from all their actions or omissions.
The attorneys involved, however, wanted to exploit the malleability of the public official to illegally export large sums of money abroad, in all likelihood attributable to their clients, on which investigators are still investigating.
The gash open on the airport world brings out an accreditation system of some companies at the expense of others, according to the logic of clientelism: those who managed to enter the rich airport market then, thanks to the consolidated system of friendships, favors and counter-favors, it remained immune to any form of competition, thus managing to always win lucrative contracts.
Relevant in the context is the figure of a well-known 55-year-old Calabrian businessman who, thanks to the complacency of the arrested official, was trying to take over the business of transporting radioactive material, for which he had already purchased some aircraft.
Those arrested will have to answer for corruption and bribery as well as for forgery, abuse of office, bankruptcy due to distraction, violation of environmental regulations.
In the course of the operation, some cars that represented the consideration for the activity of the unfaithful public employee were subjected to preventive seizure.