Tomorrow afternoon promises to be a very heated meeting of control similar to Seab. In particular, the credit recovery action entrusted by the board of directors of the municipal company to the Npl company will be discussed again. The mayor of Cossato Enrico Moggio has in fact received the legal opinion regarding the legitimacy of the direct assignment of the service to the Milanese spa and the recovery costs. The Turin lawyer Vittorio Barosio has in fact expressed doubts across the board, starting with the assignment, which took place without a tender, going in contrast with the Seab regulation itself. Even the documents provided by the investee to explain their actions do not convince the professional, as “they do not allow doubts about direct assignment to be dispelled”. Even the investee itself, according to Barosio, would have realized the need to consult at least two economic operators (which would not have been done). Among the documents to the Municipality, an undated and unsigned “request for a quote for credit recovery of Tarip invoices” by Seab would appear. It would therefore not be clear whether the request also reached other companies. Doubts are also expressed by the lawyer on the determination of the value of the assignment and its duration. Seab would have confirmed in a letter that it was four months, a term then extended for another four with a resolution of the board of directors, which was not delivered to Cossato. Renewal that would be illegitimate. And finally, the amounts envisaged to be borne by the debtor users of Seab would have been determined in contrast with the applicable legislative provisions “and the money should not have ended up in an account in the name of the private NPL collection trustee as it would have happened instead.
“We do not pretend that what our consultant says is law, comments the mayor Enrico Moggio – the board of directors will give his reasons. It seems to me that I am not asking for particular things, for the protection of everyone. Among these, as a precautionary measure, to withdraw from that contract, given that it does not involve any burden for Seab. The city council asks me to turn to the Court of Auditors and in the face of such an opinion, I do not think the similar control can pretend nothing has happened ». The approach of the opposition councilor Stefano Revello is more vehement: «Now we know that Seab was wrong with that assignment. There is only one consequent solution: resignation, immediate, without further hesitation. And the due apologies to citizens and members. The objective responsibility of the shareholders of Seab with regard to the decisions to be taken is clear and leaves no room for different interpretations. Only Corradino could slip away due to the well-known problems linked to his six-monthly crisis of the junta and to the conflicting relations with the FdI which oversees the Biella policy on waste ».