A council chamber lasting over eight hours has definitely reduced the sentence inflicted in the first instance on Antonello Montante, the former president of Sicindustria for years revered in the salons and honored by politics, which, according to the investigators, would have been able to heavily influence the times of the Crocetta presidency.
Eight years against 14 of the first degree: this is the decision of the court of appeal of Caltanissetta.
"The accusatory system is weakened, but we are certainly not satisfied and we will appeal to the Supreme Court", commented his lawyer Carlo Taormina.
The defendant absent while reading the device.
A reputation as a champion of the anti-mafia, which led him to the position of head of the legality of Confindustria,
Montante was accused of criminal association aimed at corruption, abusive access to the computer system and private violence, accusing the latter fall, while he withstood, in spite of what the lawyers wished, the challenge of criminal association.
Thanks to his contacts and the influence he exercised in some institutional environments, the entrepreneur would have created a sort of spy network: in exchange for favors, members of the police would have given him information on investigations against him, straight on " enemies ", allowed to have piles of dossiers on influential people.
the challenge of criminal association.
Thanks to his contacts and the influence he exercised in some institutional environments, the entrepreneur would have created a sort of spy network: in exchange for favors, members of the police would have given him information on investigations against him, straight on " enemies ", allowed to have piles of dossiers on influential people.
the challenge of criminal association.
Thanks to his contacts and the influence he exercised in some institutional environments, the entrepreneur would have created a sort of spy network: in exchange for favors, members of the police would have given him information on investigations against him, straight on " enemies ", allowed to have piles of dossiers on influential people.
According to the investigators, Montante would have been the head of a sort of "parallel government" in Sicily, and would have "directed" the political and administrative life of the island, placing his men in strategic positions.
"It was ascertained with sufficient clarity - wrote the Nissen prosecutor in the request for arrest - that Montante, in addition to promising and obtaining work positions, did his utmost to meet career expectations or transfers of headquarters".
At the court of the accused, according to the indictment, there were many: heads of the police forces and services, prefects, entrepreneurs, journalists, magistrates who turned to him for career advancement.
The investigation told how the entrepreneur from Serradifalco was the recipient of dozens of requests for recommendations:
At the trial, which was held with an abbreviated rite, the revelation of news covered by official secrecy and aiding and abetting some of the members of the magic circle of the former leader of Sicindustria were accused for various reasons.
Like Colonel Gianfranco Ardizzone, former provincial commander of the Guardia di Finanza of Caltanissetta, who, however, was acquitted.
He in the first degree he had been 3 years old.
Also on trial is the head of security of Confindustria Diego Di Simone, who had been 6 years and 4 months old, and who through his right arm, the deputy commissioner Marco De Angelis, sentenced by the gup to 3 years, would have carried out a series of accesses abusive to the SDI system by acquiring confidential information for the former leader of Sicindustria.
Di Simone was 5 years old,
De Angelis 3 and six months.
The commissioner Andrea Grassi, manager of the first division of the SCO, acquitted, accused of having reported confidential information to Montante.
He had been one year and four months old.
The trial of 17 other defendants involved in the investigation continues with the ordinary rite, including the former president of the Senate Renato Schifani, the former head of the secret services Arturo Esposito, the tax attorney Angelo Cuva.