He's under investigation a) by a parliamentary commission who wants to know who the heck he'd been working for, on what basis and with what objectives and last but not least who'd been paying him/his expenses recently - since the Mitrokhin commission disbanded some time back; and b) by the Naples public prosecutor who has put his Naples home plus main Naples office plus offices of a couple of scratty little pseudo-companies he owns under judicial seizure - charge being "illegal disposal of special wastes".  

When I heard the news on TV I laughed myself sick - immediate "on the face of it" interpretation being that he was being charged with crapping radioactive turds into the naples sewage system!!

But I checked it out on La Repubblica online - far more prosaic real explanation being that it's about some scam he was running with his ECPP thingy plus sidekick companies: as Berlusconi-linked Former Official Ecological Whatsit he's accused of having farmed off the rather profitable disposal of building-side excavation materials to a company not authorised to dump 'em, plus no-one knows where the heck the stuff actually got dumped! .. rather a pity, as charging Scaramella with radioactive turd-crapping would have been a magnificent twist of judicial "poetic justice"!! :-D


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