Nicola Cosentino

Nicola Cosentino ( born January 2, 1959 in Casal di Principe ) is an Italian politician of the party Popolo della Libertà. He was Minister of Economic Affairs and entered on July 14, 2010 Return on suspicion he belonged to the secret society P3.

Life

Cosentino was born in Casal di Principe near Naples; He is the nephew of Giuseppe Russo, head of the Casalesi family. He was a member of the Partito Socialista Italiano Democratico 1978-1980 council of a municipality, then from 1980 to 1995 legal adviser to the provincial administration. In 1995 he was selected for the Forza Italia in the Italian Parliament. In 2005 he ran for president of the province of Caserta, but was defeated Sandro De Franciscis, the candidate of the center- left coalition. In April 2008, he was elected to the Italian Parliament again for Berlusconi's alliance Popolo della Libertà.

After the confession of the Camorra godfather Gaetano Vassallo he left in September 2008 to a monthly allowance of 50,000 euros illegal treatment of toxic waste to. In 2009, the Anti -Mafia Commission of the municipality of Naples tried the Italian Parliament for the arrest Cosentinos, which was rejected by the relevant parliamentary committee.

In 2010, Cosentino was involved in a scandal involving wind turbines in Sardinia, in the course of an organization called nuova P2, P3 with a different name has also been uncovered. This name was faced with a comparable with the secret lodge Propaganda Due to the 1970s and 1980s activity, at that time also Silvio Berlusconi has been allocated. Before the Roman court several violations of the law were dealt with:

• Influence of the Constitutional Court to declare the Lodo Alfano to be constitutional. The system called Lodo Alfano law should protect Berlusconi before the prosecution in several lawsuits and was ultimately thus declared unconstitutional and invalid.
• Support the re-authorization of the regional party " Per la Lombardia " to the regional elections in Lombardy. The party had not been approved for signature forgery for election.
• Favoring the appointment of Alfonso Marra for the Court of Appeal in Milan
• Support the candidacy Cosentinos for the office of President in Campania by a smear campaign against other candidates of the Popolo della Libertà.

From his post as Minister of Economic Affairs, he resigned on 14 July 2010, but remains regional coordinator of his party in the Campania region ..

On 12 January 2012, the House of Representatives rejected the withdrawal of the immunity of Cosentino with 309 to 298 votes.

In the spring of 2013 Cosentino was arrested, but allowed free again. On April 3, 2014 it was announced that Cosentino was arrested with mafia intentions for extortion and distortion of competition. The close connection to the clan of the Casalesi true of his brothers, who were also arrested and charged.