The Belluno prosecutor’s office announced that it had ordered searches in Rome, Milan, Brescia, Naples and Cortina d’Ampezzo to shed light on the investigation which hypothesizes the crime of disrupting the freedom of tender for the works on the Apollonio-Socrepes cable car. The 35 million euro facility was considered essential for the success of the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina but was never inaugurated, due to delays in safety certifications and an active landslide on the land on which the facility is partly built. The searches concern Simico, a company of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport which was responsible for building the Olympic works, and the Brescia-based Graffer which had been entrusted with the work.
Simico confirmed that he “immediately guaranteed the widest and most complete collaboration to the investigative bodies” we read in a note, making it “entirely available to the judicial authorities, providing and continuing to provide all the information requested with transparency, timeliness and a spirit of full collaboration” renewing “his total trust in the work of the Judiciary and the investigative bodies, in the belief that any in-depth analysis will allow us to fully clarify the facts and to certify and confirm once again the correctness, administrative linearity and full regularity of the operations carried out by the company”.
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