The Municipality of Benevento has adopted two extraordinary-rotation measures concerning municipal managers Maurizio Perlingieri and Antonella Moretti, signed by Mayor Clemente Mastella as decrees 57 and 58.
NTR24 reports that the measures are presented as preventive actions intended to protect the impartiality and reputation of the municipality. The measures do not establish individual criminal responsibility and the allegations remain subject to judicial assessment.
What changed for Perlingieri and Moretti
Perlingieri was removed from the direction of the Environment, Mobility, Cemetery Services and Heritage sector. He was assigned responsibility for specified services within the General Affairs sector.
Moretti lost responsibility for the General Affairs sector. She remains in charge of a narrowed portfolio within the Culture, Tourism, Education and Sport sector.
The full text of decrees 57 and 58 was not independently acquired, so the reported assignments rely primarily on NTR24's account of the municipal measures.
Why the municipality says it acted
According to NTR24, the reported legal rationale for the two decrees refers to Article 16(1)(l-quater) of Legislative Decree 165/2001, Law 190/2012, guidance from ANAC and the Municipality's anti-corruption planning.
The measures are described as preventive administrative actions, not disciplinary sanctions or findings of criminal guilt. They are connected to an ongoing preliminary investigation.
The wider investigation
The Carabinieri state that searches concerned 17 suspects in an investigation involving corruption, undue inducement, receiving stolen goods and illegal party financing, including four Benevento municipal managers or officials.
The Carabinieri statement describes the broader investigation but does not identify every person or allegation discussed in the municipal measures. The investigation involves multiple public-administration procedures.
Separately, Ottopagine reports that forensic copies of phones, tablets and computers were to be made for 16 of the 20 people under investigation, including Moretti and Perlingieri, and that an evidentiary hearing had been scheduled.
What remains unclear
The precise procedural status and allegations concerning each individual may change as the preliminary investigation develops.
The sources do not establish whether the extraordinary rotations will be challenged or modified before the stated maximum duration.
