An expert report by the Court will establish the value of the property in Capoterra sold by the former President of the Region Christian Solinas for 550 thousand euros which, according to the Prosecutor's Office, would be the price of a bribe in exchange for "servitude" to a Cagliari entrepreneur, Roberto Zedda, owner of the company Arionline, which managed contracts with the Region

This was ordered by the judges of the second criminal section of the Court of Cagliari, before whom the trial began today after the referral to trial ordered in March.

At the next hearing, the panel chaired by Judge Giovanni Massidda will communicate the name of the engineer to whom the appraisal will be entrusted.

Solinas is on trial with six other co-defendants. The Capoterra property affair is not the only one at the center of the proceedings. According to the public prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia, who led the Guardia di Finanza investigations, he also promised an appointment in the Region in exchange for an honorary degree from a university in Albania and courses at an online university. All accusations that former president Solinas has forcefully rejected, reiterating in every venue the correctness of his behavior.

The Capoterra property

The first corruption charge is linked to the sale of the ruins of a former abbey in Capoterra, sold by the number one of the Psd'Az to the entrepreneur Roberto Zedda for 550 thousand euros, of which 375 thousand paid. A property that, however, the consultant of the Prosecutor's Office estimated at just 72 thousand euros. For the investigators, therefore, the difference would be the bribe. At stake, according to the prosecution, there would have been contracts for thermal scanners to be supplied to the regional offices during the Covid emergency and any other alleged favors to be done to the entrepreneur. Solinas's defense attorney, Salvatore Casula, had filed two expert reports at the preliminary hearing, arguing that the property sold would be worth exactly what was transcribed in the documents and that therefore there would have been no hidden bribe. Also accused of corruption, for this part of the indictment, is the former regional councilor Nanni Lancioni, believed to be the mediator of the deal.

The Albanian degree

In the second dispute, however, the former governor allegedly promised the appointment of Roberto Raimondi to the general management of the Eni-Cbc Mediterranean basin program management authority in exchange for an honorary degree in Albania and courses at an online university in Rome. Here, in addition to Solinas and Raimondi, the president's former consultant, Christian Stevelli, the rector of the University of Tirana, Arben Gjata, and of the E-Campus University, Alfonso Lovito, will also go on trial.

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