Autostrade, Review on Castellucci: "Total lack of scruples for the life and integrity of users"

• Arrests former Aspi leaders: Castellucci does not respond to the investigating judge and resorts to the Review

• Atlantia, the CEO Castellucci resigned

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03 December 2020 "We are very satisfied with the revocation of house arrest. We had said right away that the measure seemed disproportionate to us. We await the reasons".

This is what the lawyer of Giovanni Castellucci, former CEO of Aspi and Atlantia said, after the acceptance of his request.

Castellucci ended up under house arrest last November as part of the investigation into dangerous noise barriers.

According to the prosecutor's office and the Finance Police, the then leaders of Aspi knew that the structures were defective but did not change them to save the company.

The judges, however, ordered a ban on the manager.

also for the story of the galleries, an investigation opened after the collapse of the vault of the Bertè gallery in A26 la Genova - Gravellona Toce on 30 December last year.

Over two tons of concrete fell that evening, no vehicles were involved.

Following that episode, a new investigation into Aspi started and checks were made on the network that led to maintenance interventions that caused kilometric queues and economic damage for about a billion and the practice is on the table of the Ministry of Transport.

sees a dozen people investigated, including the current trunk manager Mirko Nanni.

The accusations are, in various ways, of an attack on transport safety and false.

According to the investigators of the first group of the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Francesco Pinto and by the substitute Stefano Puppo, the former managers had done little maintenance for the galleries in order to contain costs.

From the investigations by the prosecutor and the Gdf on the dangerous sound-absorbing barriers of Giovanni Castellucci "a picture of total lack of scruples for the life and integrity of motorway users emerges".

This was written by the judges of the Review in the reasons for the revocation of the house arrest for the former CEO of Aspi and Atlantia.

"The suspects have carried out actions and omissions relating to practically all types and objects of maintenance and adaptation in the management of motorways".

For the judges of the review, the conduct of Castellucci was not only aimed at

majority

, but also for their own economic gain.

The conducts were "all aimed at a multifaceted and persistent corporate profit policy, above all by saving the expenses due, but also trying to impute them to irrelevant chapters so that they could in part be deducted from the debts to the counterpart".

The judges write: "The satisfied majority shareholders compensated him adequately: already in 2010 he received remuneration of over one million and 250 thousand euros per year for Aspi and 750 thousand for Atlantia".

for the costs to remedy the design errors of the sound-absorbing barriers passed as improvements.

In the file, the former CEO of Aspi and Atlantia Giovanni Castellucci is being investigated.

According to the accusation, the old management of Aspi would thus have obtained an economic advantage to reduce the debts assumed towards the State by signing the single Convention.