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09 July 2020Gup of Lecce, Cinzia Vergine, sentenced the ex-prosecutor of Trani, Antonio Savasta, to 10 years, accused of having been part of a criminal association aimed at corruption in judicial acts, which he would have managed together with the ex judge Michele Nardi, accused in the ongoing process with an ordinary rite together with five other people.In addition to Savasta (defended by the lawyer Massimo Manfreda), the substitute prosecutor Luigi Scimé (at the time of the events in service in Trani and today in Salerno), who was sentenced to 4 years, the lawyers Ruggiero Sfrecola and Giacomo Ragno (both from the Bar of Trani), sentenced to 4 years and 4 months and 2 years and 8 months respectively, the Barletta property developer Luigi D'Agostino, sentenced to 4 years.
The Lecce prosecutor had asked for a sentence of 10 years and 8 months for Savasta, 4 years and 4 months for Scimé, 4 years for Dagostino, 3 years for the lawyer Sfrecola, 2 years and 8 months for the lawyer Ragno. The judge basically accepted the prosecution's requests. In the calculation of the sentence, the public prosecution ruled out the mitigation of the collaboration offered by the magistrate, who in March 2019 allowed him to leave prison (after two months) and to be transferred to house arrest, where he is still located.
Savasta according to the prosecutors of Lecce has played with Michele Nardi the role of organizer of the system aimed at piloting investigations and processes in exchange for money and other utilities paid by entrepreneurs. The former prosecutor had been called to answer for 14 counts of indictment ranging from criminal association aimed at corruption in judicial documents to fraud, slander, false ideology committed by a public official, false public document, inducement to make false declarations to the judicial authority.
Luigi Scimé was instead accused of corruption in judicial documents, in relation to the alleged donations of money that he would have obtained from the entrepreneur Flavio D'Introno. The lawyer Giacomo Ragno was accused of a slander contest and false testimony, as well as a corruption contest, for having procured a compliant witness, charged with making false statements in the context of a criminal proceeding. The lawyer Sfrecola of competition in corruption and forgery. According to the accusatory hypothesis, he also acted as an intermediary between Savasta and Dagostino, who was accused of having paid bribes for the magistrate to delay the investigation against him.