Ex Ilva, Environment trial sold off: Vendola and Riva convicted

Ex Ilva, the former president of the Puglia Region Nichi Vendola was sentenced to three years and six months of imprisonment by the Court of Assizes of Taranto at the end of the ‘Ambiente Svenduto’ trial. The accusation for the former governor was of extortion in relation to the alleged attempts to soften the controls on the levels of environmental pollution that would have been caused by the former Ilva steel plant. The Riva brothers also condemned.