Acquitted for not having committed the crime. This is the decision rendered following today’s hearing by the single judge Court of Lamezia Terme, Judge Gianmarco Angelini, towards Giovanni De Ninno, defended by the lawyer. Aldo Ferrarodespite the request for a 2-year prison sentence formulated against him by the hearing prosecutor.
The facts date back to 02/14/2020 when De Ninno was arrested in flagrante delicto for violation of seals as part of a vast environmental disaster investigation that the Lametina Prosecutor’s Office was conducting against Ilsap srl, specialized in the production of biodiesel. At the end of a detailed trial investigation, which lasted over 4 years, acquittal was pronounced against De Ninno, who had been arrested because, it was alleged, in his capacity as technical director of Ilsap srl, on the 14th /02/2020, would have continued to use the collection tanks of the purification plant of that industrial settlement despite the Judicial Authority having ordered their seizure 2 days earlier. With the aggravating circumstance of having committed the crime by De Ninno who had been appointed judicial guardian. The Carabinieri of the Noe of Catanzaro and the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza reconstructed during the hearing how from the videos of the video surveillance cameras installed by the investigators to monitor the activities of Ilsap srl, it emerged that the collection tanks of the purification plant of that site they continued to be used despite the seizure order, as a place to store the industrial waste produced by the bio diesel production plant. And since De Ninno had been appointed custodian of what had been seized, he was arrested red-handed and placed under house arrest. The defense, however, demonstrated the absence of any evidence of a direct involvement of De Ninno in the disputed violation of sealswhich at that point should have emerged precisely from the video surveillance system which had allowed the investigators to cover up the improper use of what had been seized. He may be accused of violating his duties of custody and supervision, the lawyer argued. Aldo Ferraro, but this negligent behavior could at most constitute an administrative offence, which is very different from the crime of aggravated seal violation, which instead required intentional action by the judicial custodian, supported by malice and not just negligence. Arguments accepted by the Court, which acquitted Giovanni De Ninno for not having committed the crime.