All acquitted. Judge Giorgio Altieri dropped the charges of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate against the heads of Saras and Petraco , accused of money laundering and re-employment at the end of the investigation into the purchase of Kurdish oil from Iraq .
With the part of the investigation that hypothesized that the crude oil was purchased by Isis removed and still ongoing, the prosecutors Guido Pani and Danilo Tronci had requested the trial of eight people , including the manager Dario Scafardi, in addition to the companies Saras and Petracus.
And this morning, before the Gup of the Court of Cagliari, the preliminary hearing which acquitted both the managers and the company ended .
The Iraqi State, called into question as an offended party, had not brought a civil action.
Leading the pool of defenders are the lawyers Alfredo Diana, Francesco Mucciarelli, Alessandro Boni, Luigi Fornari, Franco Balsamo, Carlo Sassi, Francesco Centonze and Matteo Buzzone. The Cagliari DDA investigation was born in 2016 after the arrival in Cagliari of about thirty ships that investigators suspected contained Iraqi crude oil, according to the investigators at that time in the hands of Daesh terrorists and purchased at an advantageous price.
Today the sentence: all acquitted.
