There is also a Sardinian among the winners of the Giorgio Ambrosoli Award , now in its tenth edition this year.

It is Antonello Congiu , former director of the Carbonia Library he started, trade unionist, general secretary of the Chamber of Labor of South Western Sardinia from 2018 to March of this year.

It was he at the end of 2019 - "in a frame of improper pressure" - who denounced serious irregularities in the Inca patronages of San Gavino, Guspini and Villacidro to the Public Prosecutor's Office by "the then official in charge of 107 suspicious pensions". From the investigations that emerged, “it emerged that in at least 32 cases the pensions would have been received in an irregular manner on the basis of fictitious contributions in existence for decades. The union was formed as an injured party to protect its members and the official was fired ".

The Award - dedicated to the lawyer and liquidator who was assassinated on 11 July 1979 by a hitman of the banker Michele Sindona - was awarded to the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and promotes the "invisible examples" of people who "in the context of their professional activity have distinguished themselves for the defense of the rule of law through the practice of integrity, responsibility and professionalism, albeit in adverse conditions due to 'environmental contexts' or improper pressures against legality in the context in which they operated ".

The Romanian Roman Roxana who denounced the clans in Rome, the Bank of Italy officials Claudio Clemente and Giovanni Castaldi , the witness of justice Lea Garofalo , the policeman Boris Giuliano assassinated by Cosa Nostra in 1979, the extraordinary commissioner also received recognition. Maurizio Bortoletti , the municipal councilor Rossella Pera and the Palermo entrepreneur Giuseppe Piraino . All of them "exemplary conduct of protection of the law in conditions of pressure and intimidation".

(Unioneonline / D)

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