Request for indictment, today in court in Sassari in a preliminary hearing, for the nine people investigated for the affair of the 8 per thousand funds which, according to the accusations, were diverted from 2013 to 2023 by the diocese of Ozieri into the current accounts of the social cooperative Spes of which Tonino Becciu, brother of Cardinal Angelo, is the legal representative .
The measure was requested by the prosecutor Gianni Caria who also announced the request for preventive seizure of the sums - approximately 2 million euros - that were allegedly stolen . Among the defendants, in addition to Becciu, the bishop of Ozieri, Corrado Melis , accused of embezzlement and money laundering with 4 other people: the director of Caritas, Don Mario Curzu, Don Francesco Ledda , parish priest of San Nicola and treasurer of the Diocese, Giovanna Pani and Maria Luisa Zambrano .
The other three are charged with false statements to the prosecutor and aiding and abetting. The defense will respond on February 3 with lawyers Ivano Iai and Antonello Patané.