The Guardia di Finanza of Parma found him with his accomplice while he was taking care of his very particular greenhouse: 106 marijuana plants that he had decided to grow in an abandoned farmhouse in Lesignano Palmia, a small hamlet in the Parma mountains.
The protagonist of the story, now under house arrest, is the former soccer player Luigi Sartor, 46.
The Gazzetta di Parma reports it.
The ex of Juventus, Inter, Rome and Parma chose the Emilian city as his residence eleven years ago.
And last Friday, at lunchtime, the Fiamme Gialle agents found him together with another 46-year-old from Parma, Marco Mantovani, intent on taking care of the cultivation which, according to estimates, could have yielded over two kilos of drug.
Investigators had been investigating for some time the activity that took place inside that apparently completely uninhabited cottage for which the doubling of the power of the meter was requested.
In addition, at night, from the cracks of the building shone the lights of the interior lighting and outside you could perceive a particular smell.
The agents had the latest clue about ten days ago by simulating a routine road check of the former football player's car, sensing the same marijuana aroma inside the car.
Luigi Sartor in the guarantee questioning before the judge Beatrice Purita made use of the right not to answer and is now under house arrest.
Sartor was one of the names of the Calcioscommesse affair that started from the Cremona Public Prosecutor's Office in 2011. When he ended up in prison, the investigation ended for him in 2019 with the statute of limitations.
The Bologna court declared the participation in a criminal association extinct.