Motorization. The Prosecutor’s Office asks for thirteen years for ‘puppeteer engineers’

There Ferrara Prosecutor’s Office requested the conviction – in abbreviated form – at 8 years old For Cesare Franchiengineer of Vehicle registration of Ferrarato 5 years for my colleague Edoardo Caselli it’s at 4 years and 6 months For Alessandro Barcaowner of ‘All Service Srl‘ which he would have done from intermediary between the trucking companies and the two officials, all three ended up at the center of the investigation relating to alleged bribe ring within the Via Canapa institutionuncovered by the maxi-operation Ghost Inspectionscarried out by the Financial Police and Traffic Police.

The requests from prosecutor Andrea Maggioni, owner of the investigation file, arrived yesterday afternoon (14 June) after a preliminary hearing lasting about seven hourswhere they were also discussed the positions of thirty-five more people That they had asked to be judged in an abbreviated manner: for two defendants it was requested no proceedingwhile for i the remaining thirty-three were asked for penalties 3 years and 8 months and 1 year and 4 months.

Franchi and Caselli would have taken bribes to certify false inspections of heavy vehicles and, according to the accusatory system, they would be i ‘puppeteers’ of a system which had its bases in Ferraraeven if everything would have been born in full of the Covid emergency with the control of a truck by the Traffic Police in the province of Ravenna which was followed, shortly afterwards, by lo strange case of a truck driver who had stopped for the night finding the vehicle the next morning “magically” revised.

During the investigations, thirty-five of the investigated then, taking advantage of the benefit of the discounted sentences for those who collaborate in investigations on crimes against the public administrationthey had preferred to talk And from there the chain reaction began which had led to investigate over two hundred people in total. Some were simple figureheads or they were unaware of what an intermediary has done and, after appropriate checks by the investigators, they had been exonerated.

During the investigation 358 registration certificates had also been seizedmany returned after revisions were performed, while about a hundred had entered the deputy prosecutor’s fileand for 168 vehicles one had been carried out extraordinary revision as an unrepeatable technical assessment.

During the previous preliminary hearings, the deputy prosecutor Andrea Maggioni requested the indictment of nineteen other people who were included in the register of suspectsWhile those who have chosen to settle are seventeen.

We return to the classroom October 4when the ball will pass to the defense arguments.

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