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Verdini convicted of corruption – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 18, 2016 at 08:43 hours.
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ROME – Denis Verdini sentenced to two years suspended sentence. For the Court of Rome he would have moved ‘institutional pressures “to appoint Fabio De Santis superintendent of public works of Tuscany, Umbria and Marche. An operation that would be the ‘consideration’ for granting ‘contract for the construction of the school of the Marshals of the Carabinieri “the BTP entrepreneur Riccardo Fusi, with which the same policy would be” linked by economic interests. “

Immediate political controversy with the minority of the Democratic party who returns to the fray against Matteo Renzi for the support of the group Verdini to the Government: it shows, says Senator dem Federico Fornaro that “in recent months we have not evoked instrumentally ghosts but rightly highlighted the risks associated with the preferential axis. ” It attacks the M5S: “From today Renzi governs with the support of a condemned for corruption.” “Who it exploits remember Verdini is not in the majority” replication Ettore Rosato, Democratic Party leader in the House.

The offense for which he was sentenced Verdini is the complicity in corruption, hypothesis formulated by the Public Prosecutor of Rome who requested and obtained the conviction for the parliamentarian, now leader of Ala (liberlapopolare-Autonomy Alliance) . The sentence was read yesterday, before the same Verdini, the panel of judges of the Seventh Criminal Division. The process is an excerpt of the previous process by which they were convicted Angelo Balducci, former president of the Higher Council for Public Works, Fabio De Santis, former administrator of public works, the entrepreneur Francesco Maria De Vito Piscicelli and the builder Riccardo Fusi . “Strong disappointment ‘was expressed by the defenders, lawyers Franco Coppi and Marco Rocchi. With a note, Coppi wanted to clarify that “it is a judgment that surprises us and disappoints us because we are convinced that there is no evidence of responsibility borne by the Verdini Senator.” He adds that “the sentences in other processes and other defendants for acts remotely ricollegabili the senator represented a suggestion for the judges, who may be have been conditioned in some way. We are going to beat us on appeal to restore the truth. ” Something’s got to be said also about the imminent statute of limitations: “To those who ask if Senator Verdini will waive or not the prescription, I can only say that even if such waiver is a fact of the accused person, a decision for only to him, you will have to go over my dead body. ”

According to the setting accusatory, as formulated by the prosecutor Ilaria Calo, De Santis’ undertook to have to get back to the BTP (Fusi, ed) the contract concerning the work for the realization of the Marshals school Carabinieri (having previously been ousted from the contract, awarded by the company Astaldi later). ” As an exchange, for “this illegal activity,” De Santis would “received the usefulness consisted in his appointment as the administrator for interregional public works in Tuscany, Umbria and the Marche, having Fusi and Balducci used to achieve the De Santis this appointment. ” In particular, the two would “availed Mr Verdini, who at the request of the above, acting under its political and institutional role, was activated with the relevant bodies for the appointment.” In the indictment, the prosecutor pointed out that in the process, “the evidence is there, especially at the level of interception, to prove that he acted with Verdini Fusi, owner of BTP, aiming to achieve, always together, the result that the same Fusi was intended ». The goal was to return to its shipyard company for the Marshals school, with the suspension of work at the expense dell’Astaldi. Coma remembered by the prosecution, the “BTP had won arbitration which had provided for the assignment of a maxi-compensation (as the contract had been previously removed, ed), but Fusi, who strongly wanted to recover those jobs, he understood that in Rome there was a corruptive system, set up by Balducci and his right arm De Santis. “
a Verdini, then, is accused of having reported, in 2008, the then Minister Altero Matteoli just the name De Santis to hold the position of administrator. “A permanent appointment except by De Santis – argued the prosecutor in his indictment – because he was not the first band leader.” The intervention of Verdini, then, was ‘determined’ and based, according to court records, even on “an historic and peaceful relationship of friendship and economic cointeressa” with Riccardo Fusi.



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