Today It’s Salvatore Cuffaro day. The former President of the Region of Sicily will be questioned this morning, from 9.30, from investigative judge from the Palermo Court must decide whether to accept the house arrest request filed by the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office.
There were 18 people examined, incl Noi Moderati leader Saverio Romanowho last night was questioned by an investigating judge, denied all the accusations leveled against him. Speaking about alleged reports of someone subcontracting to ASP Siracusa, Romano told reporters: “The dispute is on the charges.” Regarding the Syracuse contract he explained: “It did not happen, there is no possibility that it could happen, because there is clearly no pact ab origine between me and these gentlemen. And, therefore, there cannot be, given that there is no pact, there is not even an impact on the pact.” According to Romano, “the fact I have to adhere to is that there was not a single wiretap that could have alarmed me. And even in the chats there was never any reference to a criminal agreement”.
This has also been included in the investigation documents for several days service report from the Carabinieri del Ros. This is the ‘explosion’ collected by the military from the former Regional President after a search. Cuffaro told the soldiers that ASP’s general director, Alessandro Caltagirone, was “a Forza Italia guy” and that the acceleration in the race would be the result of “Romano Francesco Saverio’s intervention”, as stated in the documents. Cuffaro would limit himself to helping Mauro Marchese, Dussmann’s legal representative who won the contract, but because “in the past he had disagreements with the former general director of ASP, Ficarra; Marchese complained about the fact that Ficarra did not let them work”, as the carabinieri wrote. Today Cuffaro will answer questions from the Palermo investigative judge.
