The management of assets seized from the mafia, former judge Saguto sentenced to 8 and a half years

Sentenced to 8 years and six months in prison for the former number one of the mafia asset forfeiture. It is the ruling on the former president of preventive measures Silvana Saguto. A tough sentence in the first degree but less than the requests of what was a true symbol of the antimafia. Five years after the first warranty notice, after three years of trial, it was read by the president of the Caltanissettta court, Andrea Catalano, the sentence that closes the debate on illicit affairs in the management of assets confiscated from gangs, defined by the prosecution as “a perverse and extensive systemWhich was in charge of the judge, expelled from the judiciary in 2019.

The first chapter in the process that has truly disrupted the anti-mafia fronts today. For the former president, however, many charges fall, the accusation in fact had requested 15 years and 4 months for criminal association, corruption and abuse of power. The Caltanissetta court has not upheld the criminal association charge. Individual conduct, therefore, for the first sentence that leads to the conviction of the president of the Prevention Measures section alone, while the successful bidders were acquitted: Lorenzo Chiaramonte, acquitted today because “the fact does not exist” and Fabio Licata acquitted in abbreviated form for abuse of office and disclosure of official secrets (the latter, however, was convicted in the abbreviated procedure for having affixed a false signature). In fact, the Caltanissetta court has accepted only part of the accusatory system of the prosecution. The former judge was charged along with 14 other magistrates, lawyers, also a former prefect. Among the defendants also relatives: the father, the husband and the son. The investigation began 5 years ago, when the financiers of the nucleus of the tax police by order of the Caltanissetta Prosecutor’s Office, put a bug in the judge’s offices.

Of the so-called “circleDe Saguto, according to the prosecution was mainly the lawyer Gaetano Cappellano Seminara, his main collaborator, a judicial administrator, sentenced today in Caltanissetta. Chaplain Seminara He was accused of having given the judge money to solve his debt problems, as the prosecutors had asked him Maurizio Bonaccorso me Claudia pasciuti 12 years and three months. The episode of the car found with 20 thousand euros within which the judicial administrator would take the judge to settle his debts, in exchange for his appointment, which in turn corresponded to choosing Saguto’s husband in the management of the assets. However, the Caltanissetta court ordered the transmission of the documents to the Prosecutor’s Office of 9 witnesses, for perjury, including the name of Giuseppe Caronia, the witness who reported the tram episode. Detail highlighted by the judge’s lawyer, Ninni Reina: “I have reason to believe that this defamatory accusation has also dropped. That’s that episode that if a test trailer had been made it would have been the main image ”.

Sentenced to six years and 10 months for the former teacher of Kore Carmelo Provenzano, for him the prosecutors had asked for 11 years and 8 months: in the reconstruction carried out by the prosecution, Provenzano would have been designated by Saguto as appointed to replace Chaplain Seminara in the judicial management of the seized assets., after the controversy that arose due to the excessive role of the lawyer. Three years for the former prefect of Palermo Francesca Cannizzo (the prosecutor had requested 8). Sentenced to 6 years, 2 months and 10 days in prison on husband by Saguto, Lorenzo Caramma. While the son Emanuele He was sentenced to 6 months, sentence suspended. On the other hand, the father of the former president, Vittorio Saguto, was acquitted. Among the accused also Walter Virga, the son of judge Tommaso Virga acquitted with an abbreviated rite, while the son in charge of administering the assets of the Rappa was sentenced to one year and 10 months of probation. Yes years 2 months and 10 days, for the judicial administrator Roberto Santangelo. Four years for the lieutenant colonel of the Treasury Police Rosolino Nasca. For the teacher Roberto Di Maria 2 years, 8 months and 20 days. Maria Ingarao, Wife of Provenzano (4 years and 2 months); Calogera Blanket, the sister-in-law (4 years and 2 months).

Lorenzo Chiaramonte, judge aside from Saguto, was acquitted because “fact does not exist“:” Dignity and serenity have been restored to a serious and honest magistrate who was only in the wrong place at the wrong time, “commented his lawyer, Fabio Lanfranca. The judicial administrator also acquitted Giant Ass. “There is a sentence, finally. The sentence speaks ”, commented the deputy prosecutor of Caltanissetta. Gabriele paci before leaving the bunker after reading the device.

“Was acquitted on at least 24 charges – emphasizes, instead, Saguto’s lawyer -. A sentence of almost half compared to the request made by the prosecution, a significant reduction also compared to the other defendants who have also had their sentences reduced with respect to the requests of the prosecution but did not have the same number of accusations: consider that Saguto were only well disputed 74 loads. Faced with a conviction, one is never satisfied, I simply register the fact but I am already thinking about tomorrow, when I will begin to mount the request for appeal. “The accusatory hypothesis has only been partially upheld and there have been acquittals on various charges. There was an acquittal in relation to the associative crime. However, we will read the reasons ”, said, instead, lawyer Sergio Monaco, lawyer for the former judicial administrator. Chaplain Seminara.

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