Reuters reported that the Milan Attorney General and the civil parties of the Revenue Agency and the Indian Ministry of Defense filed today the appeal before the Court of Cassation of the second sentence of acquittal issued by the Court of Appeal of Milan against the former CEO of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Spagnolini, as part of the proceeding on the alleged bribes for the 560 million euro contract for 12 helicopters to India in 2010.
Legal and legal sources have reported this, stating that the appeal, whose term expired today, was presented both by the substitute pg Gemma Gualdi, and by the state lawyer Maria Gabriella Vanadia for the Inland Revenue, both by the lawyer Francesca Rolla from the Hogan Lovells studio and from her substitute attorney Roberto Losengo for the Indian ministry.
Regarding the outcome of the event, remember legal sources, incumbent in any case the prescription that should intervene at the end 2019 beginning 2020.
Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Spagnolini had been acquitted by the third court of appeal of Milan in the trial in Italy which saw them accused of international corruption and false invoicing. According to the judges, "there is insufficient evidence that the facts exist".
This was the appeal sentence for the two former managers of the Defense group. The Milan attorney general had requested confirmation of the first conviction of appeal, 4 years and 6 months for Bears and 4 years for Spagnolini, bearing in mind, however, that one of the incidents disputed has become statute of limitations. The defenses had instead requested the acquittal of the two defendants. The first conviction was annulled with a referral from the Court of Cassation.
The trial of the first degree against them was then started the 19 June 2013 at the court of Busto Arsizio, with sentence arrived the 9 October 2014. The court acquitted them from the charge of international corruption and sentenced them to two years for false billing. The first appeals process had concluded the 7 April 2016. That sentence had partly reformed that of first instance, condemning Orsi and Spagnolini respectively to 4 years and 6 months and 4 years for both the alleged offenses.
In December 2016, however, the court of cassation annulled that sentence by postponement, motivating its decision by the fact that some testimonies that in the first instance had been read as favorable to the accused, in the second instance, however, had been seen as contrary. and used to convict them also for the crime of corruption, without hurting the witnesses. A second appeal process was thus held, which ended with an acquittal, challenged today by the Revenue Agency and the Indian Ministry of Defense.