The carabinieri police said the 58-year-old had engaged in “continued theft of public water“ to the detriment of the 18th-century Royal Palace of Caserta, a UNESCO heritage site built by the King of Naples, Charles of Bourbon.
The suspect allegedly tapped into the Caroline Aqueduct, funnelling the water through an illegal pipeline to transport it 145 metres (475 feet) to his agricultural property, which police said they seized.
The suspect was identified as the concessionaire of the agricultural property owned by a religious organisation.
The palace, which boasts 123 hectares (300 acres) of gardens, said in a statement it had suffered a “serious water shortage” at its waterfall, fountains and basins.
It said it had avoided using its watering systems for the lawns, causing them to turn yellow, adding that dealing with the situation had caused them “very difficult months”.
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