– The prosecutor of Ivrea is notifying alerts closing investigations for the 39 suspects of the investigation into the deaths to asbestos at Olivetti. Among the suspects are Carlo, Franco and Rodolfo De Benedetti and Corrado Passera. The accusation made by prosecutors for all Piedmont is one of manslaughter.
The accusations are heavy: the executives knew that the factory in the 70 and 80 was used with a high concentration of toxic talc tremolite but have done nothing to protect their workers. At least 18 people have died from diseases caused by asbestos precisely.
In 1981, the company decided to change the talc present in the assembly with a harmless. A decision taken only when there had been certain that the tremolite was toxic.
Even Colaninno among the suspects – The recipients of the measure, signed by prosecutors Gabriella Viglione and Lorenzo Boscagli, also appear the names of Roberto Colaninno and Camillo Olivetti. The magistrates eporediesi proceed by injury and wrongful death in relation to diseases of suspected occupational origin, which hit a dozen workers. The notice of the closing of the investigation explicit that “at the moment” the prosecutor “does not intend to require the filing.”
Carlo De Benedetti is concerned by the investigation in his capacity as chief executive officer and president of Olivetti from 1978-1996; brother Franco as CEO from 1978 to 1989, vice president from 1989 to 1992 and as a director until 1993; Rodolfo’s son as a director from 1990 to 1997; the former Minister Corrado Passera as a director from 1990 to 1996 and CEO from 1992 to 1996.
Colaninno has been CEO since 1996, Camillo Olivetti is under investigation in his capacity as CEO of the 1963 to 1964 and as a director until 1981.
Carlo De Benedetti: “Stranger to the facts” – “Carlo De Benedetti strongly reiterates its total strangeness to the facts contested and confidently awaiting the next steps in the procedure “: so reads a statement by the spokesman, who expressed” belief “Engineer” that the outcome of this complex investigation conducted by prosecutors, once being considered by the Judge , can be clarified individual roles and specific functions performed within the corporate structure of the articulated Olivetti. Reiterating its closeness to the families of the workers involved, De Benedetti recalls once again that, in the period of his stay in the company, the ‘Olivetti has always paid attention to the health and safety of workers by appropriate regulatory and scientific knowledge of the time. “
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