So convictions on a total of sixteen defendants in the trial of first instance on the crafty ones of the Sanremo card.

All the defendants are accused of fraud against the state and violation of the Brunetta law on public employment. The employees stamped the cards and then made themselves comfortable, absent themselves without justification during working hours.

Among the many investigations on the "crafty" is perhaps the most iconic, memorable image of the local police officer who stamped the card in his underwear and then return home. But also the employee who went rowing during working hours.

The only acquittal was that of Rita Torre, against which the judge Francesca Minieri of the court of Imperia took into account the particular tenuousness of the fact. The penalties range from 8 months to 3 years and 7 months.

The investigation into the so-called culminated in October 2015 with 35 house arrest and over 100 suspects. It was customary to stamp the card or have it stamped and then go shopping, sport or engage in private activities. The preliminary hearing ended on January 20, 2020, with 10 abbreviated acquittals, 16 indictments and as many plea agreements.

"There can only be great satisfaction for a Carthusian trial, with over thirty hearings, the first of which in January, with the prosecutor Paola Marrali, who analyzed every single event, minute by minute, exit by exit. The fact that the judge has considered these hypotheses to be well founded, excluding among other things the guilt for many episodes, with the defense that has cited all the witnesses for a complete trial, gives us maximum satisfaction ", states the prosecutor of Imperia Alberto Lari.

"We appreciated the work of the judge and the commitment of the court, which made the interests of justice and the state prevail, even though they are crimes close to the limitation period - underlined Lari -. A sentence that comforts us also in relation to the appeal against acquittals in abbreviated form (by judge Paolo Luppi, ed), which confirm that we were right to proceed with the appeal. Two clearly opposed sentences and we hope that this thesis will prevail ".

Among those acquitted with an abbreviated rite there is the traffic policeman who has become a symbol of this affair against his will.

(Unioneonline / L)

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