Acquitted “because the fact does not exist”. The Court of Appeal of Catanzaro has exonerated Elio Balzanoowner of the nautical company “Porto Vecchio Service” by Crotonefrom the accusation of corruption That at first instance had earned him a abbreviated sentence to 1 year and 10 months in prison.
The 41 -year -old entrepreneur had ended up at the center of the investigation by the Crotone prosecutor on the alleged illicit favors that, in April 2021, some Inspectors of the ASP spisal would have granted on the occasion of checks on construction sites. The investigations, which came to light on November 5, 2022 with two interdictions from the profession performed by the carabinieri, focused on the hypoth affair of corruption linked to the “prestigious fish” who jump, four years ago, gave two employees of the spisal then to return the failure to imposition the penalties to his company.
However, a thesis that was dismantled in the second degree by the lawyer Pasquale Carolei, who witnessed Balzano, in which he contested the accusations made against his client. And in the end, the defensive thesis was accepted by the appeal judges. Instead, the ordinary procedural truncation led to the indictment of five other defendants.