Trial requested for the mayor of Venice Brugnaro: he is accused of aiding and abetting corruption

The Public Prosecutor's Office has asked the investigating judge to send to trial the mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro and the other suspects (there were 34 in total) in the corruption investigation called "Palude", which involved the municipality of the lagoon city.

In their request to the investigating judge, the prosecutors Roberto Terzo and Federica Baccaglini would confirm the main accusation, with the hypotheses of corruption against Brugnaro, the general director and the deputy chief of staff of Cà Farsetti, Morris Cerron and Derek Donadini , and the former councillor Renato Boraso .

The affair involving Brugnaro concerns the negotiations with the Singaporean entrepreneur Chiat Kwong Ching for the "Pili" area on the outskirts of Venice, owned by Brugnaro himself, and the blind trust that manages the assets that the mayor created when he was elected.

Among the many accusations leveled against all the suspects, those leveled against the mayor stand out, namely the corruption conspiracy that also involves the Singaporean magnate Ching Chiat Kwong and his collaborators in relation to the affair of the sale, never completed, of 41 hectares of the Pili area that overlook the lagoon from the mainland . The area was purchased by Brugnaro as an entrepreneur, before becoming mayor, for 5 million euros and is now registered to the Porta di Venezia company and entered, like all the mayor's assets, into a blind trust in 2017 to escape controversy over possible conflicts of interest.