Messina: “This investigation should not have been done”

The fact does not exist. But that it did not exist, one might say, was clear from the beginning of the embezzlement investigation which involved the former president of the Vulci Foundation Carmelo Messina together with the former mayor Sergio Caci and the former administrative director of the archaeological park Alessandro Fiordoms.

They were all fully acquitted by the Civitavecchia court at the end of a judicial ordeal that lasted 5 years. The prosecutor, we recall, had asked for 4 years of imprisonment for all of them for the alleged damage caused to the Vulci Foundation. Where the damage would have been the entertainment expenses – 36 thousand euros – incurred over 4 years.

Messina: “This investigation should not have been done”

“In my career I have managed businesses worth billions of euros without ever having been touched by a proceeding, I had to arrive here to stumble upon, at the age of 70, a surreal investigation”, he declared to the Corriere, in the aftermath of the acquittal sentence, the former IRI manager. Who, while he and his lawyers evaluate the possibility of requesting compensation, hopes that this sentence can serve as a lesson to those who intend to wage a political struggle through the courtrooms. The reference is to the author of the complaint that set the Prosecutor’s Office and Finance in motion in 2019, namely the former PD city councilor Eleonora Sacconi.

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“In light of this liberating sentence – declares Messina – the time has perhaps come for local politics to change pace: you cannot always appeal to the judiciary. In order not to poison relationships in small towns like ours, the discussion, even harsh ones, must be kept on the political table, or in any case in a public forum. In this way the judiciary, if it becomes aware of news of a crime, has the obligation to intervene”. And this time, without Sacconi’s complaint, it would be difficult for her to have intervened. But what did these phantom entertainment expenses that ended up being investigated by the Finance Police consist of? First of all, it should be noted that the sums personally contested in Messina amount to 1,800 euros and that 96 thousand euros also appear in the investigation papers dating back to the previous period in which the Vulci park was managed by the municipal company Mastarna.

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