Aldo Tasca spa was acquitted

TREVISO – Acquitted because the fact does not exist. The story of Gianni Tascabuilding contractor and owner of Aldo Tasca spa of Ponzano, accused of corruption as part of an investigation carried out by Financial Police of L’Aquila for what happened during the post-earthquake reconstruction period. The entrepreneur was essentially accused of having bribed a municipal manager to obtain contracts for approximately 9 million euros. Accusation collapsed when faced with the reconstruction and evidence presented during the hearing by the defense led by the Treviso lawyer Fabio Crea: «We are extremely satisfied with this acquittal because the fact does not exist after the first degree sentence eight years ago which culminated in a three-year sentence – explains the lawyer – unfortunately the regret remains because, as often happens, the businessman accused has to wait too many years to have his innocence recognized, but in the meantime he suffers incalculable damage to his business as happened in Tasca during the reconstruction following the earthquake in The Eagle».

THE FACTS
The story began in 2011 when the entrepreneur from Treviso was accused of having illicitly obtained contracts for 9 million of euros from a manager of the municipality of L’Aquila. In fact, the prosecution believed that the manager had received approximately 50 thousand euros from the entrepreneur in the form of a “discount” for the construction of 4 houses on the outskirts of the city. According to the accusation, the manager would have facilitated Aldo Tasca spa in the assignment of works post-earthquake reconstruction especially of a condominium of which he was also the administrator, therefore in charge of a public service. The man apparently signed a preliminary agreement with the construction company for the assignment of the works but without a date and never passed through the condominium meeting. Furthermore, he would have encouraged Aldo Tasca spa by helping and favoring it until the works were awarded. In short: for the accusation there were all the conditions for a piloted procurement.

THE INVESTIGATIONS

The Prosecutor’s Office entrusted the investigation to the L’Aquila Financial Police who seized 264 thousand euros from the suspects, a provision however canceled by the Review which accepted the request presented by the defense lawyers. Release of seizure later also confirmed by Court of Cassation. In the first instance, however, the Court did not take into account the release from seizure and instead condemned two of the three suspects: the entrepreneur from Treviso and the manager, instead acquitting the official’s daughter previously accused of complicity in corruption. The judges, on that occasion, considered the conclusions made by the Fiamme Gialle to be valid. The defense lawyers, however, have always maintained the case of corruption was non-existent as it had been reconstructed. And after the first degree sentence, once the reasons were received, the race began to overturn everything on appeal. And so it was: the sentence a few days ago completely acquitted Gianni Tasca because the fact does not exist.

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