Officers of the Guardia di Finanza in Torre del Greco have returned to Palazzo Baronale for a second inspection in less than a week, spending about three and a half hours with administrative officials and staff responsible for council-commission records.
According to Il Mattino, the officers reviewed how council commissions are convened and requested clarification about commission minutes that had been copied and taken away during the previous visit. About one hundred pages relating to commission meetings held in March 2026 were reported to be under examination.
The focus of the checks is on attendance signatures, reimbursements paid by the municipality to employers for councillors' absences from work, and payments due to councillors for participation in commissions.
The inquiry is reported to follow allegations by former municipal secretary Domenico Gelormini about systematic anomalies in the frequency, duration and subject matter of commissions. Investigators are said to be examining whether commission convocations comply with the Tuel, the consolidated law on local authorities, and whether meetings called frequently or at overlapping times could raise criminal-law issues when payments or reimbursements were obtained despite only brief participation.
The same report says payments to councillors and reimbursements to companies have been frozen for several months pending clarification. The freeze has contributed to tensions between councillors and the administrative leadership. Councillors reportedly asked council president Gaetano Frulio to intervene to unlock the payments, but the mediation produced no result.
No offence has been established. The available reporting is partly based on indiscretions, and no official statement from the Guardia di Finanza, the municipality, the prosecutor's office or the named officials was included. The report does not provide a formal case number, prosecutorial status, or the amounts of the reimbursements and payments under review.
