Four years after the sentence pronounced by the Court of Auditors , and about one year after the confirmation arrived in the second degree (definitive), the Chamber of Commerce knocks on the door of its former president Giancarlo Deidda and asks him for the restitution of the sum that the body had had to pay to cover the tax damage caused by him during his management: about 722 thousand euros . Step taken a week ago by the lawyer Giovanni Dore on a mandate from President Maurizio de Pascale, as determined on the institutional website, after the failure to respond to previous attempts to contact.

The sale

The story is a direct consequence of the purchase of the building that housed the headquarters of the former Commercial Bank in Largo Carlo Felice 66/68 in Cagliari , three levels covering an area of approximately 1,600 square meters. The sale, concluded to expand and optimize the spaces available to the Chamber of Commerce, which already owns the adjacent building, was considered by the accounting judges to be fruitless if not useless , without in-depth studies that assessed the actual need to merge offices and staff, lacking an appropriate assessment of the costs (including those of any restructuring that later proved to be high). So the 12.5 million euros paid out in 2011 after the unanimous go-ahead of the Chamber Council in 2010 (with the positive opinion of the auditors) should not have been spent , taking into account that the property had remained empty and unused until 2017. Accounting prosecutors Mauro Murtas and Gaetano Berretta had quantified the final damage at 3.6 million, underlining that the Chamber of Commerce had other properties to exploit and that the new one was oversized compared to the needs and had not been used immediately.

The decision

But the Court, underlining how the premises had in any case become part of the public assets, had held Giancarlo Deidda responsible for a "tax damage" equal to about 2 million euros , who for the prosecution had played a "decisive role of initiative and driving force »in the following resolutions of the Chamber council, the former general secretary Carlo Desogus, the members of the chamber council and the auditors in office at the time of the go-ahead, the members of the council and the general secretary took over the role. Then he divided the responsibilities: 35 per cent had been placed in charge of the president, 15 per cent to the secretary, the last 50 per cent to other persons who, however, having not been originally called upon by the Prosecutor's Office, could not repay the damage. Thus he had sentenced only Deidda and Desogus (who later paid the due) to pay respectively 699,442 and 299,761 euros plus interest and revaluation, sums identified by examining the passive "cost" caused by the period of non-use of the premises and interest on the amortization plan with the bank that had disbursed the loan for the purchase.

The building

The building belonged to Carlo Scano's “Colors” company and was purchased in 2011 by the Chamber to unite its offices scattered around the city there. The expansion project, launched in 2007, was included in the "Forecast and planning report" for 2008: it was explained that the premises were used to "equip the institution with a structure more functional to the needs of users and staff" given "the changed organizational and logistical needs". The premise, reaffirmed in Giunta by Deidda, was to first of all sell the building in via Malta (2,300 square meters) to raise cash, but after three unsuccessful tenders, the go-ahead had still arrived for the opening of the mortgage to buy the building.
Andrea Manunza

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