Convictions and Acquittals in the AS Roma Stadium Investigation

Nine convictions and about ten acquittals. This is the first verdict on the extensive investigation by the Rome Prosecutor's Office on the new stadium for AS Roma. After more than eight hours of deliberation, the judges sentenced, among others, Luca Lanzalone to three years in prison, the former president of the capital's assembly (M5s) Marcello De Vito to eight years and 8 months, and the Lega party member Giulio Centemero to one year. The judges then sentenced the entrepreneur Luca Parnasi, who had opted for a plea bargain, to two years in prison, while the lawyer Camillo Mezzacapo received a 9-year prison sentence. Camilla Marianera, the mole of the Rome Court sentenced to 6 years: house arrest ordered. She told her relatives: 'See you at home'. Tor di Valle Stadium, the trial Furthermore, the entrepreneur Giuseppe Statuto was sentenced to one year and six months, while Gianluca Bardelli received 6 years and 8 months, and the accountant Andrea Manzoni 8 months. Among those acquitted, with the formula for not having committed the deed or the deed does not exist, were the former regional councilor Michele Civita, Francesco Bonifazi, former treasurer of the PD, as well as the former superintendent Francesco Prosperetti and the former city councilor Davide Bordoni. The judges also ordered De Vito and Mezzacapo to pay about 230 thousand euros in favor of the City of Rome. The convictions and acquittals A verdict that only partially accepts the accusatory framework of the prosecutors from Piazzale Clodio who had requested 22 convictions in a proceeding that hypothesized episodes of corruption, influence trafficking, and illicit financing. For the prosecution representatives, the investigations and the trial 'clearly showed the existence of a 'Parnasi system' that, to favor its activities, used severe corrupt schemes, through favors to local politicians, from all parties, as a method of doing business'. Commenting on the court's decision, Parnasi's defenders did not hide their satisfaction, announcing an appeal. 'We fought a great legal battle, most of the issues we raised were recognized - states lawyer Emilio Ricci - the mitigating circumstance of collaboration, the generics, were recognized, we are also happy about the reclassification between corruption for an act contrary to official duties and corruption in the exercise of function'. According to the structure of the accusation, Parnasi attempted to steer the administrative procedures related to the master plan for the facility that was to be built in Tor di Valle, approved within the framework of the conference of services. A measure that, among other things, led to the demolition of 50% of the volumes compared to the initial hypothesis. In this system, Parnasi - according to the accusation - had in Lanzalone a primary reference.