«The“ Conto Mazzini ”process? It was the fig leaf behind which politics hid ”. Giovanni Lonfernini does not mince words, commenting on his acquittal de iure and de facto.

“The acquittal, without ifs and buts, closes a very complex period of my life that began on November 3, 2014 with my resignation from the Great and General Council”. Thus began his speech Giovanni Lonfernini during the press conference held yesterday at the Rossi hotel, a few days after the end of a nightmare. He especially he is keen to point out that he has always believed “in the judicial authority”. On the other hand, nothing to reply to the various readings of the sentence that emerged, limiting himself to pointing out that he had never contested the “order for confiscation of assets”.

They accuse them

The former exponent of Pdcs, Ddc and Upr had been accused of money laundering and criminal association. On the contrary, the defense’s thesis was that the 215 thousand euros given to Lonfernini by Giuseppe Roberti with a bearer passbook were aimed only at financing the political activity of the accused. That therefore he was not aware of the illegal origin of the figure. The tax prosecutor at the time had asked for 4 years and 9 months of imprisonment for him, in addition to the confiscation of 216 thousand euros.

The cold comment

“In recent years it seemed to me that the” Mazzini Account “- continues the former government exponent – had become the most classic of the fig leaves behind which our policy has hidden with the aim of obscuring shortcomings, delays and difficulties “. Grateful to the family that has always believed in him, he only hopes for a “season” where the dialectic between politics and justice will return to full capacity.

Meanwhile, the defense attorney Stefano Pagliai specifies that the acquittal from the contestation of both criminal association and money laundering would have intervened in any case, “detached from both the triggering of the statute of limitations, and from the effects of the sentence of the Guarantor Board” . Mouths sewn instead on “comments and simplifications” of others that allude to “a generalized blow in the sponge”.