A Naples investigation centered on Soresa and cooperatives employing former inmates has an electoral offshoot: investigators are examining allegations that signatures were forged or used without consent to support regional election lists.
According to Il Mattino, the documents in the case contain claims of apocryphal signatures collected during the submission of lists for the regional elections. The material under review concerns signatures linked to former figures in the cooperatives, which were allegedly handled or used without their knowledge.
The electoral strand is separate from the main chapter of the inquiry into Soresa and the cooperatives. It remains at the investigative stage, with no judicial finding reported on the allegedly false signatures.
The main investigation: Soresa, contracts and appointments
The principal strand involves the arrest of Tommaso Casillo, president of Soresa, in an investigation by the Naples prosecutor's office concerning procurement, corruption and alleged links with the Veneruso clan.
Former Five Star deputy Teresa Manzo is under investigation over alleged intermediation in the appointment of Dario Vicedomini as coordinating commissioner of the Centro unico di servizi, the body for cooperatives.
Under the prosecution hypothesis, Vicedomini was appointed on 30 November 2020, and the Centro unico di servizi later hired Alessandro Martino, Manzo's partner, in January 2022. The conduct has been provisionally classified as improper corruption.
The investigating judge found serious indications supporting the prosecution's reconstruction for precautionary purposes, while excluding the mafia aggravating circumstance for the chapter concerning Manzo.
The wider inquiry also includes allegations of bribes and public contracts in the health and environmental sectors, including a tender for the rental of stretchers and a procedure in the waste sector.
What the Centro unico di servizi is
The Centro unico di servizi manages Naples cooperatives aimed at the employment of socially useful workers, unemployed people and former detainees. Its role is central to the prosecution hypothesis because the alleged exchange links Vicedomini's appointment to Martino's subsequent hiring.
The electoral strand: what is alleged
The electoral allegation concerns the subscription of regional lists. The investigative material, as reported, points to signatures attributed to former cooperative figures that would have been used behind their backs.
The sources acquired do not provide independent verification of the authenticity of the signatures or the identity of the people who allegedly used them. They do not state how many signatures are involved, which lists are concerned, or whether specific complaints were filed by the former employees.
Il Mattino notes that the direct accounts of the people concerned are missing.
What remains unclear
The charges against the suspects are provisional and will have to be assessed in later procedural stages. For the electoral strand, the sources report no conclusion on the allegedly apocryphal signatures.
Unresolved points include the number of signatures under examination, the lists potentially affected, and whether the former cooperative members whose names appear have filed formal reports.
