Investigated the mayor of Palermo Orlando, for false municipal budgets along with 23 other former councilors, managers and area heads
The mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando and the other 23 people inside the Municipality, received a notice of conclusion of the investigations. The accusation contested by the Palermo prosecutor is “false material committed by a public official in a public act“The investigations of the economic and financial police nucleus of the Guardia di Finanza of Palermo, would have ascertained numerous irregularities in the financial statements of four years, from 2016 to 2019.
Orlando: “I look forward to being heard by the prosecutors”
The mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, with regard to the notice of conclusion of the investigations, he stated: “I was notified of the notice of an investigation, I will examine the documents filed by the public prosecutor’s office and for maximum clarity I look forward to being heard by the titular magistrates investigations on the merits and skills in a subject, which is, moreover, particularly technical “.
These would be data in the financial statements from 2016 to 2109. Some irregularities concern the overestimated revenue forecasts sent, according to the complaints, to the General Accounting Office “misleading the Palermo City Council and causing it to adopt the resolution with which the budget was approved”.
The disputed numbers also include those relating to the receivables of the Municipality from investee companies. As in the case of the debts of the Municipality towards Amat, the municipal transport company, “falsely quantified at only 197 thousand euros, for the year 2016, against the company’s credits of 8 million 890 thousand euros”. According to the results of the investigations of the Guardia di Finanza, not even some budget certifications are true: for example, in the face of a final balance between revenues and expenses for the year 2016 indicated in +55 million euros, there would be it was a real negative balance of minus 35 million euros, “hiding the failure of the municipality to respect the balanced budget”.
Salvini: “Oddities on the Left. Orlando? At home”
Matteo Salvini on twitter he expresses himself on the investigation involving the mayor of Palermo with the other 23, for forgery in the municipal budgets. “Before the vote he goes to demonstrate with the CGIL – he writes on his page -, just after the vote he is investigated. What oddities on the left … Tomorrow I will be in Palermo to meet citizens and leaders of the League. Orlando? At home”.
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