• Maugeri case, Pg Cassation on Formigoni: 'Imposing corrupt barter'

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February 21, 2019 Former governor of Lombardy Roberto Formigoni accused of corruption in the Maugeri-San Raffaele trial was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months, with a slight discount of penalty by prescription. This was decided by the Cassation, which also rejected the other appeals of the defendants. 

In particular, the sentence of 7 years and 7 months was confirmed for Costantino Passerino, former manager of Maugeri and that of 3 years and 4 months for the businessman Carlo Farina; Carla Vites' appeal was inadmissible, which had already been acquitted and had appealed against the sentence to have a wider acquittal.

As a result of the so-called 'sweepers' law, the crime of corruption has been included among the so-called 'hostile' crimes which prevent asking for alternative measures to prison. With the final sentence of 5 years and 10 months of imprisonment, tomorrow the doors of the prison for Roberto Formigoni could open. In fact, as soon as the device of the Cassation sentence is transmitted, the substitute pg Antonio Lamanna, owner of the file, will issue the execution order of the sentence. Order that will be immediately executed unless, as probable, Formigoni spontaneously constitutes itself.

According to reports, Formigoni, despite being over 70 years old, according to the new law 'sweepers' can no longer enjoy the age-related benefits that would have otherwise allowed him to avoid the cell and to expiate the sentence in house detention . It is not excluded, however, that the defense of the former governor presents an application to request that he serve his sentence at home.

Also for Costantino Passerino, the former administrative director of the Maugeri foundation who was denied the appeal and confirmed the 7 years and 7 months inflicted on appeal, the prison doors should again open (he had already been arrested during preliminary investigations in the April 2012) while for the entrepreneur Claudio Farina with the confirmation of 3 years and 4 months for money laundering the suspension of the execution of the sentence should arrive.

"A very long procedural process closes. The Region was a civil party, we obtained first and second instance the return of about 6 million: from a civil point of view the damage has already been compensated". The lawyer Domenico Aiello, legal representative of the Lombardy Region at the trial for the Maugeri case, told Adnkronos, commenting on the sentence of the Cassation against the former governor Roberto Formigoni.

"Humanly sorry". This is how Silvio Berlusconi comments on Roberto Formigoni's sentence in Cassation for the Maugeri affair. 

"I am saddened and sorry for Roberto Formigoni who for 18 years has contributed to developing an indisputable series of important records in Lombardy. Let's not limit ourselves to judging him only for this sentence". So the governor of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, on the Maugeri affair, for which the former president of the region was sentenced today to 5 years and 10 months on charges of corruption.