It closes with two slight convictions and four acquittals the trial that arose the “Out of the tunnel” operation. This is the investigation of the Operational Section of the Dia di Messina which brought the activity of the CAS, the Consortium of the Sicilian motorways for the umpteenth time to the center of the prosecutor’s office. Some of the main contracts of the last few years on the A20 and the A18, also with works relating to security systems. The framework of the crimes contested originally: these were various cases between corruption, false ideological, auction disturbance and fraud.
In this investigation, the main defendants were two CAS officials at the time of the facts, the engineer Angelo Puccia and the colleague Alfonso Edoardo Schepisi; The entrepreneur was also involved Fabrizio Notarilegal representative of notaries Luigi Spa. But there were three other defendants: Saverio Ferrazzanoentrepreneur and administrator of the “Tindari Scarl” and the “Capo d’Orlando Scarl”, the entrepreneur Francesco Fundarò, who would come into play as a sub-contractor of the works of the “S. Alessio” gallery, e Girolamo Ponzioas an employee of the company that took care of the asphalt restoration works along the Calamo viaduct.
To decide the verdict in the late afternoon, the first criminal section of the court chaired by the judge Adriana Sciglio. The sentence. Only for Puccia and Ponzio decided on the sentence of one year, and under penalty suspended for Puccia, with the generic extenuating circumstances deemed equivalent to the aggravating circumstances, and only for a false case, relating to the certification of the execution of the works on the Calamo viaduct. For the rest, all the other accusations have fallen. Full acquittal therefore with the formula “Because the fact does not exist” have recorded Ferrazzano, Fundarò, notaries and shielded by all the other charges. Puccia also recorded other partial acquittals. The requests of the accusation, which last January had formulated six requests for conviction, some quite heavy.