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Riccardo Bossi sentenced to one year and eight months for embezzlement – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 14, 2016 at 12:47 hours.
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Riccardo Bossi, the eldest son of the founder of the Northern League Umberto, was sentenced to one year and eight months for the crime of embezzlement for the alleged aggravated personal expenses with funds from the Northern League. This was decided by the Eighth Criminal Division of the Court of Milan. Today is the first judgment relating to various legal proceedings in Milan and Genoa after the scandal broke on misuse of the funds of the party broke out in 2012.

In the focus of 158 thousand euro expenses with party funds
the “personal expenses” of Bossi junior at the heart of the process are around 158 thousand euro, money from the funds for electoral reimbursements party used by the young between 2008 and 2011 for paid subscriptions to pay-TV and the bills of electricity and gas. The Milanese judges, condemning Riccardo Bossi for embezzlement, have recognized the son of Senatur extenuating circumstances and suspended sentence.

The lawyer: “Condemnation too hard, we will appeal,”
At the announcement of candanna for misappropriation of his client inflicted with the summary procedure (which provides for a discount of third of the sentence) ‘s lawyer Agostino Maiello reiterated the “total alienation” of Riccardo Bossi to the accusations: “Whoever of us when asked for the money to dad did not know where he took them.” That of today – said the lawyer – “is a sentence too harsh, and we will definitely appeal. The lawyer went on to say that the Bossi firstborn “at this time is in trouble, has stopped its activity because of this legal matter and is looking for work.”



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