June 19, 2024, 5.23pm
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PALERMO – Sentence overturned. The Court of Appeal acquitted Pietro Lo Monaco, general manager of the Civil Protection department of the Sicilian Region. In the first instance he had been sentenced to two and a half years for embezzlement.
The accusation that he had pocketed an allowance that was not due to him for an additional assignment did not stand up to him. The confiscation of 56 thousand euros and the two-year ban from public office also fall.
From 2010 to 2012, Lo Monaco was part of the special office for landslides in the Messina area. A regional law of 2010 included the principle of all-inclusive compensation for executives.
When you receive an additional assignment at another institution, the money must flow into the chapter intended for the additional financial compensation of the management. In short, they could not end up in the employee’s pocket.
The sentence could represent a precedent that sets the tone. In other embezzlement trials there had already been acquittals because the accused had returned the money long before the trial, invoking, in his own defense, interpretative chaos.
The Region has always boasted concurrent legislative competence for a long time until the contrary rulings of the Constitutional Court.
In this case, however, the acquittal was decided without the accused having made any restitution. The defense lawyer, Roberto Mangano, argued that Lo Monaco “was fully entitled to that compensation, just like that cracking what seemed to be, until today, the granitic principle of all-comprehensiveness.
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June 19, 2024, 5.23pm
