Catanzaro, ‘Morandi’ bridge seized: “Bad mortar used”

Seizure, with right of use, of the ‘Bisantis’ viaduct, also known as the ‘Morandi’ bridge, and of the ‘Sansinato’ tunnel on Strada Statale 280, known as ‘dei Due Mari’, for the purpose of carrying out technical investigations. This is what the Catanzaro Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered as part of the ‘Brooklyn’ operation which this morning led to the issuance of six precautionary measures with accusations ranging, for various reasons, from the fraudulent transfer of values ​​to self-laundering, from corruption in judicial acts against criminal association and fraud in public supplies, with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated mafia-type associations, in relation, among other things, to the extraordinary maintenance works of the ‘Morandi’ bridge and a section of the road state road 280 ‘dei Due Mari’. The investigating judge also ordered the preventive seizure of three construction companies and over € 200,000 as a profit from the alleged crimes. “The investigative activity outlined a serious circumstantial framework against the entrepreneurs, de facto owners of the contractor of the works, who, due to financial problems, with the complicity of the construction manager and an Anas engineer, used a type of poor quality mortar in the work, but cheaper than the one initially used “, is what emerges.