(ANSA) - LECCE, 01 APR - The Court of Appeal of Lecce, declaring its territorial incompetence in favor of the Power Prosecutor's Office, annulled the first degree sentence with which the former Tranese investigating judge Michele Nardi was sentenced by the Salento court to 16 years and 9 months for criminal association aimed at corruption in judicial acts.
Nardiera accused of having guaranteed favorable procedural outcomes in more judicial and tax matters in favor of entrepreneurs involved in the investigations of the prosecutors of Trani in exchange for money, jewels and various utilities.
The sentence was also annulled in relation to the other 4 defendants.
The Court of Appeal of Lecce, president Vincenzo Scardia, thus accepted one of the preliminary objections presented at the last hearing by the legal representative of Nardi, Domenico Mariani,
Among these was the territorial jurisdiction with which it was required to move the procedure to Potenza because it was connected - according to the defense - to the functions of Carlo Maria Capristo, the former prosecutor of Trani and Taranto, investigated in the chief town of Lucca.
In addition to Nardi, the Court of Lecce, on 18 November 2020, had sentenced the police inspector Vincenzo Di Chiaro to 9 years and 7 months of imprisonment, considered a complicity of the former Tranese prosecutor Antonio Savasta (convicted in the first instance with an abbreviated procedure in a trial at 10 years);
6 years and 4 months had been inflicted on Simona Cuomo from Bari, 5 years and 6 months on Gianluigi Patruno;
4 years and three months in SavinoZagaria, Savasta's brother-in-law.
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