his councilor D’Adamo is under investigation for fraud –

Another shock in the Apulian capital. The mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, has revoked the budget delegation from Alessandro D’ Adamo, a councilor under investigation for fraud. This was confirmed by the mayor himself, president of Anci, who spoke at an event on small municipalities in Pompeii, in the province of Naples: “I am convinced that, even if the investigation does not concern activities linked to the municipality but professional activities, the exercising an important public function such as that of councilor must be above all suspicion, and therefore as soon as I heard I revoked his delegation”, he declared. Regarding the future candidate for mayor of Bari for the centre-left, Decaro explained that “there will be a meeting by the Democratic Party and the lists that support the candidate Vito Leccese, and also a meeting of the convention with the 5 Star Movement which supports the candidate Michele Laforgia, but they will make the choice.” “I am the outgoing mayor. You have to talk to them,” he added.

Today the financiers of the Provincial Command of Bari carried out a house and local search decree in Bari and its province, Lecce and Andria (Bat), issued by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office for aggravated fraud for obtaining public funds and issuing invoices for non-existent operations, issued against two people resident in the regional capital for crimes committed in Bari from 2019 to 2022, both under investigation, together with a third person. The searches also involved some entities attributable to them. According to the hypothesis of the accusation, there would be serious indications of crime in the activities carried out by associations (which are responsible for the profiles of administrative responsibility of the entities), with registered office in the capital and various local units in the Apulian territory, attributable to the two suspects, engaged in the professional training sector, the fight against unemployment and the inclusion of young people in the world of work and education, beneficiaries of community contributions paid under the Youth Guarantee programme.