Mafia, Raffaele Lombardo acquitted on appeal

Acquitted on appeal Raffaele Lombardo, the former President of the Sicilian Region accused of external competition in mafia association and electoral corruption. . Read also The Court of Appeal of Catania acquitted Lombardo from the accusation of external competition “because the fact does not exist” and from that of electoral corruption aggravated by having favored the mafia “for not having committed the fact”, explained the President Rosa Angela Castagnola reading the device. The Procuratorate General of Catania, with the deputy attorneys general Sabrina Gambino and Agata Santonocito, had asked for the sentence of Raffaele Lombardo, to seven years and four months of imprisonment, with the abbreviated procedure.