Cassino's gup, Salvatore Scalera, blamed the allegations on the "Pibe de oro" with the formula "because the fact is not a crime". Diego Armando Maradona was accused of defaming the words that in the 2012 the former footballer addressed to Equitalia Spa and the chairman of the time, Attilio Befera.
The same decision was made for Angelo Pisani, his historic lawyer, by Cassino's judge.
Thus ends a six-year judicial case involving the Rome and Cassino prosecutors. Maradona was disputed that he had released from May to June of 2012 "a series of declarations, between public interventions and interviews with information bodies, in which he repeatedly claimed to be a victim of instrumental persecution by Equitalia on the basis of documentation false and irregular procedures that had brought him near irreparable gestures, as happened to other people. "
A long legal battle that of the Argentine champion with the Italian tax authorities culminated with the blatant "gesture of the umbrella" that the former football player made live on TV as a guest of a Rai Tre broadcast. The procedure had started in piazzale Clodio. The Capitoline investigating judge had indicted the former number 10 of the Argentine national team but on July 16 last year the single judge, accepting a request for territorial incompetence advanced by the defenders of the two defendants, Damiano De Rosa and Sergio Pisani, had sent the documents to the court of Cassino.
According to the judge, the trial had to be transferred as the newspaper (La Voce delle Voci) in which Maradona's statements appeared is printed in the Ciociara town. "It is the end of an injustice, the affirmation of legal certainty, the existence of justice, the fundamental role of the lawyer", commented Maradona's lawyers after the judge's ruling.