No case to answer because ‘the fact does not exist’ and therefore acquittal for the ten suspects of bankruptcy at the Provincial Agricultural Consortium. This was decided after a three-hour council chamber by the judge Maria Di Carlo. In October 2023, ten requests for indictment had been made for bankruptcy at the Agricultural Consortium by Deputy Prosecutor Patrizia Filomena Rosa, with a hearing before Judge Maria Di Carlo, who had to decide whether to acquit the suspects or send them to trial. Yesterday the magistrate decided for acquittal. The acquitted suspects are Giacomo Papa, 52, from Benevento, and Valentina Rettino, 45, from Benevento, liquidators from December 2, 2009, to November 8, 2013, and from November 8, 2013, to November 12, 2019; the members of the supervisory committee and liquidators of the Consortium Luigi Muraca, 57, native of Lamezia Terme, Giulio Vecchione, 75, Neapolitan, Giovanna Razzano, 59, originally from San Salvatore Telesino; the two members of the supervisory authority, Gianluca Scarponi, 56, Roman, head of the division for dissolutions, commissioner managements, forced and administrative liquidation of cooperative entities, and Mara Pepe, 58, Roman, administrative officer of the General Directorate for supervision of entities, the cooperative system and commissioner managements of the Ministry of Economic Development and already a member of the interministerial commission for the evaluation of the activities of agricultural consortia; the general director and commissioner of the Consortium from 2001 to 2018, Nicola De Girolamo, 74, from San Nicola Manfredi; the commissioner of the same Consortium Fabio Corda, 46, from Benevento, resident in Apollosa; the certifier of the Consortium Maurizio Boffa, 60, from Benevento. The suspects are charged with fraudulent bankruptcy. The investigation was launched in 2017 and conducted by Deputy Prosecutor Giovanni Conzo and Deputy Prosecutor Patrizia Filomena Rosa, as well as by the Guardia di Finanza regarding the management of the Agricultural Consortium of Benevento, once considered a flagship of the local economy before being overwhelmed by the crisis, ending in controlled administration since ’92 and then the subject of debates and political clashes. According to the reconstruction by the investigators, the suspects allegedly diverted and dissipated large sums of money attributable to the Consortium in forced administrative liquidation since 1996, compromising the credit mass. Focus was also on the management of books and accounting records, which did not allow the reconstruction of assets and business movements. The described conduct would have led to the consolidation and increase of a significant imbalance between liabilities and assets, given that the Consortium’s debt situation amounted to about 62 million euros, compared to available resources of just under 27 million. The suspects were defended by lawyers Salvatore Verrillo, Sergio Rando, Angelo Leone, Anselmo Torchia, Pietro Chiodo, Luigi Giuliano, Pietro Farina, Mario Antinucci, Vincenzo Gatti, and Nazzareno Lanni. Two civil parties for the Agricultural Consortium: Luca Pallotta and, for a false charge, lawyer Vincenzo Megna.
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