Nine years for the former publisher Alberto Rigotti, 5 years for the founder of the free press Nicola Grauso , then other sentences ranging between 3 and a half and 4 years of imprisonment for various other defendants and some acquittals.

The first criminal section of the Cagliari court has fully accepted the requests of the public prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia , at the end of the trial for the alleged 130 million euro bankruptcy of the Epolis publishing group , which published numerous newspapers in various regions of Italy.

Eight years after the indictment formalized by the GUP of the Court of Cagliari, Giovanni Massidda, the trial that arose from one of the most complex bankruptcy investigations ever conducted in Sardinia has concluded, resulting in over forty charges against various defendants accused of having caused the bankruptcy of the company Epolis and the advertising agency Publiepolis.
The other sentences are 4 years for Sara Cipollini, 4 years also for Michela Veronica Crescenti , 3 years and 9 months for Alessandro Valentino , 3 and a half years for John Gaethe Visendi . Various other crimes have been declared time-barred or acquitted against the other defendants Vincenzo Greco (extinguished due to the death of the offender), Rosanna and Rosalba Chielli , Claudio Noziglia and Anna Abbatecola .

The investigation had led to the arrest of the company's top management : in addition to Rigotti, the company's vice president, Sara Cipollini, and the board member Vincenzo Maria Greco. Cipollini and Greco were immediately placed under house arrest, while Alberto Rigotti was sent to prison.
In 2016, the former vice president of the advertising agency Publiepolis, Carlo Momigliano, was acquitted of bankruptcy charges in the trial on the alleged millionaire collapse of the publishing group Epolis, which published a large number of newspapers in various regions of Italy. He was the only defendant to choose the abbreviated procedure in the trial for the alleged bankruptcy of Epolis.
Today, before the panel of judges of the first section of the Cagliari court, presided over by Judge Lucia Perra (joined by her colleagues Antonella Useli Bachitta and Federico Loche), the sentence was read.
The bankruptcy of the Epolis publishing group had cost dozens of jobs among journalists, graphic designers and administrators.

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