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The former governor of Calabria was accused of corruption and abuse of power. The sentence handed down at the end of the trial with abbreviated procedure
CATANZARO – The former president of the Calabria Region, Mario Oliverio, had chosen to be tried with the abbreviated rite, as part of the “Desolate Land” investigation and accused of corruption and abuse of power. Oliverio was acquitted because the fact does not exist. The sentence was handed down by the gup of the Catanzaro Court, Giulio De Gregorio at the end of the trial with an abbreviated procedure. The prosecutor had requested a sentence of 4 years and 8 months in prison for Oliverio.
Former President Oliverio, defended by lawyers Enzo Belvedere and Armando Veneto, had been attacked while he was still in office, by a measure of the obligation of residence, first confirmed by the Court of Liberty, then annulled by the Court of Cassation. Satisfaction in the words of defense attorney Enzo Belvedere: “He was acquitted of an injunction that had struck him just when he was president and had received a restrictive injunction. Today the Gup said that “the fact does not exist” absolving it with the broader formula. Obviously Oliverio is very satisfied because from this absolution comes the redemption with respect to the damage to his image, So much so that the Roman secretariat, precisely because of this process, did not want to reapply. He did not deserve this treatment after so many years of politics.
At the center of the investigation, the alleged infringements committed in the tender award procedures relating to important public works (including the works in Piazza Bilotti in Cosenza, the Lorica ski facilities and the Scalea aerodrome). Oliverio was the only defendant to be tried in an abbreviated way, all the other defendants will be tried with an ordinary rite. The hearing is scheduled for October 7. According to the accusatory hypothesis, the accused would have tried to stop the execution of the works in Piazza Bilotti, carried out by the “Barbieri group” which, in exchange, would have obtained more financing for other works that the accusation considers “not due or legitimately due. “. . Slowdown, according to the Catanzaro Prosecutor’s Office, whose purpose was of a political nature so that the mayor of Cosenza Mario Occhiuto -who was re-elected at that time- would not inaugurate the square in the center of the city.
Adamo and Bruno Bossio acquitted
The Democratic Party deputy Enza Bruno Bossio and Nicola Adamo, former vice president of the Calabria regional council, were paid out this morning before the judge of the court of Catanzaro, who issued a sentence in the ordinary rite deciding not to proceed because the fact does not exist. Hon. Bossio and Adamo – defended by lawyer Ugo Celestino – they were accused of corruption.
Everyone will go to trial the other suspects who had chosen to be tried with an ordinary rite and who are today in preventive detention: Giorgio Ottavio Barbieri, Carlo Cittadini, Vincenzo De Caro, Ettore Della Fazia, Gianbattista Falvo, Gianluca Guarnaccia, Carmine Guido, Rosaria Guzzo, Pasquale Latella, Damiano Francesco Mele, Marco Trozzo, Francesco Tucci, Arturo Veltri, Luigi Giuseppe Zinno.
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