Genoa: Briatore acquitted on appeal, ‘Calvary ends after 12 years and 6 trials’

“In May 2010 the financial police seized my boat and the news came out in the media all over the world that I was a smuggler and a tax evader. Today, after 12 years and 6 trials, my innocence has finally been ascertained. A real ordeal that has fortunately ended “. Thus Flavio Briatore comments with the Adnkronos on the acquittal sentence of the court of appeal of Genoa which put an end to the trial against him for tax evasion in which, off the coast of La Spezia, on 21 May 2010, his boat was also seized Force Blue. “I thank all the professionals who have followed me in this story – concludes Briatore – from Coppi Massimo Pellicciotta to Fabio Lattanzi and Andrea Parolini”.