• Investigation for embezzlement: 150 thousand euro seized by former prosecutor Antonio Ingroia
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March 20, 2018The Guardia di Finanza has seized a country house of the former pm of Palermo Antonio Ingroia, investigated for embezzlement. In recent days, the investigating judge, at the request of the Public Prosecutor, had ordered the preventive seizure of the former magistrate by equivalent of 151 thousand euros. The decision to order the seizure of the property, located in Calatafimi, arises from the fact that the money present on the current accounts of the suspect would not be sufficient to "cover" the totality of the sum seized by the investigating judge. The provision determines the impossibility of selling the house.

Two episodes disputed at Ingroia. Appointed in 2013 by the government Crocetta liquidator of Sicilia e-Servizi spa, an in-house company of the Region has liquidated, in conflict of interest and without going through a specific assessment of the shareholders' meeting, a result compensation of 117 thousand euro. For the investigators it would be an undue sum because the law establishes that the indemnity cannot exceed double the all-inclusive compensation given equal, for Ingroia at 50,000 euros a year. In 2013 the former pm worked in Sicily and Services only three months, receiving a salary limited to that period. The compensation would therefore be completely disproportionate. And, according to the investigators, he allegedly reduced the profit from € 150,000 to € 33,000.

Ingroia, who now works as a lawyer and lives in Rome, would also have improperly appropriated an additional € 34,000 as reimbursement of expenses for food and lodging in 2014 and 2015, on the occasion of transfers to Palermo to perform the functions of administrator, despite the national and regional legislation, clarified by a circular from the Regional Department of the Economy, allowed the directors of investee companies residing outside the headquarters the exclusive reimbursement of travel expenses. The former prosecutor had adopted a regulation within the company which allowed this further undue repayment.

Ingroia: "On the eve of the sentence on Negotiation"
"I notice a singular timing, we are on the eve of the ruling on the Negotiation process 'State - mafia'. It is not good that the prosecutor, who signed the request for trial for all the defendants, finds himself on the eve of that sentence with a precautionary provision on the head ". Thus the former prosecutor Antonio Ingroia, under investigation for a dual hypothesis of embezzlement for the activity carried out when he held the position of Sole Director of the company Sicilia e-Servizi.