The public prosecutor Diana Lecca has requested acquittal for the former president of the Bnl, Luigi Abete , who ended up on trial in Cagliari on charges of bank usury for the rates applied by the credit institution on some mortgages.
After the indictment ordered by the Magistrate of the Court, Giampaolo Casula, the hearing was held before the panel presided over by Judge Gianpiero Sanna. The manager is defended by the lawyer Luca Rampioni who, like the public prosecution, has requested a full solution for the accused . The civil parties, assisted by lawyers Marcello Colamatteo, Roberto Pusceddu and Francesco Roli, have a different opinion. Even during the preliminary hearing, prosecutor Lecca had urged that proceedings should not proceed and today she reiterated that, in her opinion, the manager should be acquitted .
The investigation started from a complaint from a company that had been charged rates considered to be beyond the legal limits . The prosecutor had considered that Abete did not have awareness of the crime, in other words the subjective element would have been missing . It all started with the complaint from the company that owns the Setar hotel in Qaurtu Sant'Elena which had taken out a loan with the Bnl reporting interest rates that were higher than due. The panel postponed its replies to October 25th: that day the sentence will also be read.
