Rcm Costruzioni announced that “the Preliminary Hearing Judge Pompeo Carriere, of the Court of Taranto, issued a ruling of ‘No grounds to proceed, because the fact does not exist’ against the co-administrator of R.C.M.Costruzioni, Eugenio Rainone, and for two other entrepreneurs, for whom the Public Prosecutor had requested indictment, following the investigation into the maxi contract for the «works of rectification, widening and structural adaptation of the Levante quay of the Molo San Cataldo and of berth 1 of the Port of Taranto» announced by the Port System Authority of the Ionian Sea”.
According to Rcm “the decision accepts the defense’s argument, completely rejecting the accusatory one, supported by the Public Prosecutor, demonstrating how, in the administrative proceedings, both the Puglia Regional Administrative Court and the Council of State had certified the regularity of the procedure and, therefore, the complete non-involvement of the accused with respect to the facts reported by the complainant”.
The investigation originated from a complaint by Doronzo srl which, after ranking first, was excluded by the Taranto port authority based on a series of documents produced, according to the accusation, by Rcm. Essentially, Doronzo srl had indicated the consortium as a sort of partner to achieve those requirements demanded by the tender that the company alone could not have achieved. According to investigators, the three defendants essentially convinced the management of some consortium companies to refuse that agreement to prevent the award.
“The attempt by an aspiring competitor to discredit the credibility and reliability of R.C.M.Costruzioni, through unfounded accusations towards my person, only because ‘guilty’ of having documented, through acts legitimately acquired, with regular procedures for access to documents, their clumsy attempt to disturb the regular conduct of the tender procedure, by providing the contracting authority with misleading information capable of influencing the decisions on their exclusion, ascertained by the administrative judges, has clashed with the trust I have placed from the beginning in the work of the judging judiciary which yesterday issued a ruling of no grounds to proceed because the fact does not exist. I thank my lawyers, Professor Alessandro Diddi and Lawyer Nicola Marseglia and my dear friend, Lawyer Daniela Petrone, for the defense of the company” commented Rainone announcing compensatory action.
