A traffic warden from Palermo, Vincenzo Virgadamo, was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment (3 of which remitted) for a series of briberies imposed on restaurateurs and shopkeepers, forced to offer him lunches or discounts in order not be controlled or reported to the police.

The sentence was emitted by the third section of the Court of Palermo, that accepted the requests of magistrate Maria Forti, sentencing also Stefano Cardinale and Egidio Radicella, colleagues of the man accused, respectively to 5 and 3 years of imprisonment. Their sentence will also be remitted. Virgadamo was also deprived of his civil rights for the rest of his life.  
 

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute