Cassation: “No proof of Alemanno corruption”

“In the first instance sentence and in that of appeal it is completely vague and unproven what was Alemanno’s role in the illicit affair of tender no. 18/11 announced by Ama “. This is what the judges of the Sixth Criminal Section of the Cassation write in the reasons for the sentence with which on July 8 they acquitted the former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno of corruption charges. Alemanno had been sentenced in first degree and on appeal to 6 years but then the Supreme Court annulled the corruption charges without postponement, also deciding to have a new appeal process carried out to redetermine the sentence, redeveloping the crime in the traffic of influences, for the case of the release of the payments of Eur Spa. “The appeal sentence, in the face of the defensive complaints that had complained about the lack of demonstration of the applicant’s participation in the illicit agreement between Buzzi and Panzironi for the alteration of the tender – writes the Cassation – it limited itself to indicating as proof against it the transfers made by Buzzi to the Nuova Italia Foundation (linked to the former mayor, ed.) close to the award of the tender (dating back to 5 December 2012). This reasoning – underline the supreme judges – is seriously lacking and the College believes that the acts described in the sentence are not such as to provide, beyond any reasonable doubt, proof of Alemanno’s participation “in the alleged crime”. In particular, the sentence states, “it had to be demonstrated that the only conduct ultimately ascribable” to Alemanno “in the matter in question (the delegation of de facto powers to Panzironi in Ama) had not only been strictly correlated to the alteration of tender no.18 / 11 in favor of Buzzi, but also paid with the donation in cash. “” Elements “explain the judges, who” are in no way explicit in the motivational path of the sentence, which he reconnected in completely generic terms the behavior “of the former mayor” the delegation of powers to Panzironi) both to the alteration of the tender and to the sums received through the Foundation “. The Court of Cassation with the sentence pronounced on 8 July confirmed Alemanno’s responsibility in relation to the crime of illicit financing.