Sorrento Mayor Massimo Coppola Arrested: “Caught Red-Handed Pocketing Bribes”
The serious accusations
Arrested red-handed while pocketing money, which investigators believe to be a bribe , during a dinner he attended after a sporting event.
This is how the mayor of Sorrento Massimo Coppola ended up in handcuffs and arrested by the Guardia di Finanza.
A 48-year-old lawyer, elected in 2020 with a list of civic lists to lead the municipality overlooking the Gulf of Naples, the Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor's Office coordinated by prosecutor Nunzio Fragliasso is challenging Coppola for the crime of undue inducement to give or promise benefits .
According to what was learned by the Agi agency, the finance police car was still guarding the Sorrento town hall at midnight yesterday.
Coppola has been in politics for years. After a youthful militancy in the MSI, he was elected for the first time as a city councilor in Sorrento in 2010 and remained in office for four years, until he received the assignment of councilor with responsibilities for youth policies, commerce and crafts, which he will carry out for a year.
From 2015 to 2019 he was a councilor with responsibilities for Youth Policies, Trade and Crafts, Territorial Marketing, Public Green, Mobility and Civil Protection. The turning point came in 2020 , with the election as mayor in the first round with 60 percent of the votes : Coppola was supported by a series of civic lists from the center-right area, but supported in a sort of "Große Koalition" also by lists from the Pd area but without symbols.
(article under update)
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