(ANSA) – BARI, 20 JUN – For the crimes of embezzlement and material forgery committed by public officials in public documents, the 55-year-old Sabino Ardito, a former official of the Municipality of Bitetto (Bari) currently serving in the nearby Municipality of Cassano delle Murge, ended up under house arrest. Three of his family members, his wife and two children just over 20, were subjected to the obligation of residence and presentation to the judicial police on charges of receiving stolen goods. The finance police, at the disposal of the Bari judiciary, also carried out a preventive seizure of 34 thousand euros against Ardito.
The facts allegedly were committed in Bitetto, Cassano delle Murge and Grumo Appula between September 2017 and November 2019.
The investigation started with the complaint, in May 2021, presented by the mayor of Bitetto, Fiorenza Pascazio, and by the general secretary of the small municipality in the Bari area. Ardito, it is the accusation, allegedly misappropriated money withdrawn from the current accounts of the municipal body with transfers to his and his family’s current accounts. In Bitetto the suspect was in charge of preparing payment orders in favor of the suppliers of goods / services to the institution. This would have given him access to municipal bank current accounts from which, the investigators coordinated by the Bari prosecutor’s office have reconstructed, he would have made 45 transfers, transferring a total of 34,000 euros in two years. He would have done so by falsifying some payment orders by inserting his, his wife and his two sons’ identifiers in place of the Iban identifiers of the current accounts of the suppliers and indicating in the reason for the supply of electricity, water, purchase of school furniture or entrusting the service. three years concerning the integrated management of health and safety. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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