"The fact does not exist" . Thus the governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana was acquitted , with four other people , of the accusation of fraud in public supplies for the case of the award by the Region of a supply, then transformed into a donation, of about half a million euros of 75 thousand gowns and other protective devices in Dama, the company of his brother-in-law Andrea Dini .
This was decided by the gup of Milan Chiara Valori . The story concerns April 2020, therefore at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
After the decision of the gup Fontana, speaking on the phone with his lawyers, the lawyers Jacopo
Think and Federico Papa, said he was " happy and moved ".
"The president was discredited in a tragic moment for Lombardy and for a case that involved him and his family", commented the same lawyers.
Furthermore, they add, “if he had gone to trial, the state would have spent five times what it earned with the donation” which has come under investigation.
(Unioneonline / lf)