A sentenced to six years of imprisonment, the other 23 defendants acquitted of the trial for the crash of Banca Etruria. This is the sentence issued this morning by the court of Arezzo. The sentence was handed down to the financier Alberto Rigotti, former bank adviser. Among the acquitted was the former chairman of the bank’s last board of directors Lorenzo Rosi. In January 2019, four other defendants, including the former president, had already been sentenced with an abbreviated sentence Giuseppe Fornasari and the former general manager Luca Bronchi.
I pm Lulia Maggiore e Angela Masiello, for the crash of the Arezzo bank, they had asked for sentences ranging from 1 to 6 and a half years for the 24 defendants, one of whom died last summer, accused of simple or fraudulent bankruptcy depending on their respective court positions. Among the suspected executives and directors of the Aretine credit institution. In January 2019 the gup, again for the bank crash, had sentenced the former president to 5 years with an abbreviated rite Giuseppe Fornasari and the former general manager Luca Bronchi, the former vice president at two years and six months Alfredo Berni and a year and 6 months the former councilor Rossano Soldini.
“There are people who have gone on dialysis, who have had heart attacks and now they find themselves with this sentence. The state remains a fugitive and people continue to suffer. We will evaluate for the appeal”, was the comment of the lawyer of the civil party for a shareholders’ committee Riziero Angeletti. While satisfaction was expressed by Antonino Giunta, defender of the former president of the Arezzo institute Lorenzo Rosi.
“The court dismantled the accusations against former directors and managers by demonstrating that the Banca Etruria crisis depended on other causes outside their role. The defenses are very satisfied”, explained the lawyer. For the lawyer of the only one. sentenced Rigotti, “the sentences are respected. For some charges my client has been acquitted. Now we will see carefully how the sentence matured and we will evaluate for the appeal. The reasons will be fundamental”.