Territorial continuity, Sogeaal managers acquitted: the race was not contaminated

Acquittal yesterday in court in Sassari, because the fact does not exist, for the three defendants in the 2017 territorial continuity tender.

A story which, years ago, saw six people being accused of abuse of office and impaired freedom of procedure for choosing the contractor. Once the positions of three of them were removed, and the crime of abuse of office was dropped in 2022, the second charge against Mario Peralda, former general director of Sogeaal, the company that manages the Alghero airport, Raffaele Ciaravola, head of "Marketing" remained standing. Aviation” Sogeaal and Roberto Mascellaro, manager of the company “Pwc Italia” appointed by the Region to draw up the Tourism Notice.

According to the prosecutor's office, the defendants «through collusions consisting of emails and phone calls with representatives of the airlines disturbed the open computerized procedure, divided into lots, for the awarding of promotion and communication services aimed at deseasonalizing Sardinian tourism in the reference markets ». These would have planned, so the attribution, "the choice of the contractor by agreeing on the destinations and the sums to be paid for each tender lot".

And if the prosecutor Angelo Beccu asked for acquittal because the fact does not constitute a crime, the defense lawyers highlighted how the tender did not undergo any type of pre-packaging and that the relationships with the companies were intended to maximize the possibility of accessing the tender by avoiding the flop. The lawyers were Nicola Satta for Peralda, Stefano Porcu for Ciaravola and Agostinangelo Marras for Mascellaro. The college was chaired by Giancosimo Mura, alongside Monia Adami and Sara Pelicci.