The supervisory court of Florence granted Denis Verdini home detention for 7 months, for health reasons.
We learned this in the afternoon from the lawyer Marco Rocchi who specified that "Verdini has just arrived home".
Initially held in the Sollicciano prison, then due to his health conditions he was moved to the Don Bosco prison in Pisa which has a clinical centre. The same defender had requested that the former banker's state of health was incompatible with his detention in prison.
On May 30th there was a hearing at the supervisory court which, two days ago, had received the report from Professor Carlo Rostagno, an expert appointed by the court, in which it was stated that Denis Verdini has multiple pathologies that are difficult to manage correctly in a penitentiary . The conclusion of the cardiac surgeon, Professor Pierluigi Stefano, a consultant from whom the defense asked for a biased evaluation, was similar.
Now the decision that allows the former FI and Ala parliamentarian to serve his sentence at home, in his villa in Pian de' Giullari, the hill above Florence. Denis Verdini, 73, must serve 15 years and 10 months in prison for three bankruptcy convictions. In January 2021 he obtained house detention for health reasons, due to Covid spreading among the inmates and staff of the Capitoline prison of Rebibbia where he had turned himself in and was imprisoned. Then a similar decision was confirmed by the supervisory court of Florence in July 2021 due to the age, having exceeded 70 years.
However, in February 2024, Verdini's house detention was revoked for having violated prescriptions imposed by the same surveillance court, in particular those indicated in his trips to Rome, agreed to undergo visits to the trusted dentist, which Verdini has in the capital. However, during his stays in Rome, the former senator had participated in some dinners in restaurants. Denis Verdini had also been authorized by the Surveillance to stay overnight in his son Tommaso's house in Rome.
(Unioneonline/D)