Account Mazzini, few reactions to the blow of the sponge of the “tangentopoli of San Marino”
“The decision comes as a result of a process that has no equal for dimensions and media coverage in the history of San Marino justice ”so the appellate judge Francesco Caprioli in its 750 pages of participation, which put an end to a process that involved, as he himself remembers, six legal persons 21 people physical, among which former members of the Congress and the Council calls to answer for criminal conspiracy, money laundering, and false accounting in competition with bankers, professionals and business brokers.
At a first reading of the reasons for the sentence, which as is now known all the San Marino politicians involved were acquitted, it emerges how much the interpretation of the Board of Guarantors on money laundering as a permanent offense weighed on the blow of the sponge, an interpretation that Caprioli refers to in the introduction. But if this aspect could have been foreseeable, it is surprising instead that the system of the acriminal association, with the sole exception of the same as from the same of Giovanni Lonfernini. Few dubbing even on origin of the money. “
The investigative documents – writes Caprioli referring to the Mazzini registry – have brought out with great clarity the times, methods and contents of thescore activity carried out by Giuseppe Roberti as well as the predicate offenses generating the illicit funding “. In fact, even if reduced because in the event of acquittal those for equivalent are no longer valid confiscations: almost 9 million euros“. The substantial motivations of the sentence – writes the lawyer Moreno Maresi require a careful reading before being able to carry out reflections on the provision issued by the judge Prof Caprioli “. The lawyer, who defended Luigi Moretti expresses satisfaction for the outcome of the affair, which “thus puts an end – he writes – to the very serious state of discomfort and suffering that my client had to experience for so many years; state of mind made even heavier, as it was necessary to wait for the outcome of the appeal judgment to see theunjust condemnation first degree ”
Few, to tell the truth, the reactions. In a statement Free he remembers among other things “that this majority is the one who chose the Director of the Court and me too To guarantee, those who with a sentence have “allowed” an appeal judge to acquit Mazziniani despite the crimes, albeit prescribed, affirm confirmed. The Secretary also spoke on the sentence Teodoro Lonfernini. “She did not win justice but she won the system system who lived for years in the illegality and confusion between personal political and professional roles ”wrote the exponent of Christian Democracya party that became a civil parre at the trial but which in the first instance saw the request for compensation rejected.
“An outcome that leaves a bad taste in the mouth”, he writes NET. “One wonders – he writes – how is it possible that only after years, al second degreea judge can realize that the crimes the trial was concerned with were prescribed before departure, or even in some cases crimes that are not punishable because they were committed before the laws that could punish their conduct were implemented. We trust that the unanimous political ruling, and that there is no one who wants this sentence as an acquittal of the rampant corruption in that well-circumscribed historical period. To prevent too long processes from being repeated in the future with the risk of impacts, in recent years we have unit measures that will prevent the processes from falling into statute of limitations “.