Judge transferred to another office since last July, but to date no new magistrate has been identified in his place and the trial has been postponed for a good six months. It happens at the Court of Vibo Valentia in the trial in which the member of the Five Star Movement, Riccardo Tucci, is accused of tax fraud.
The president of the College – Judge Claudia Caputo – was in fact transferred to another location over four months ago, but the president of the Court of Vibo has not yet identified and designated a judge to preside over the College in place of the transferred magistrate. The trial of MP Riccardo Tucci and three other defendants (including Adriano Tucci, cousin of the parliamentarian) was thus postponed to 28 April 2026, in the hope that by that date a judge will be identified called to compose the panel of three magistrates who must hold the hearing.
Fraudulent declarations, through the use of invoices for non-existent operations in order to evade taxes by increasing costs, is the crime hypothesis contested, on two charges, against the M5S member of Vibono Riccardo Tucci in his capacity as legal representative of the «Assistenza Servizi telematici satellitei» cooperative until 19 March 2018. The investigating judge has already ordered preventive seizure against Tucci aimed at confiscating the sum of euros 9,000.00. The request for Tucci’s indictment by the Prosecutor’s Office dates back to July 2021, but the indictment by the preliminary hearing judge dates back to two years later, on May 25, 2023. Since then the trial is still awaiting the conclusion of the first level of judgment.