Earthquake in the barracks of the Guardia di Finanza in viale Diaz: a brigadier serving in the Cagliari group was stopped by his colleagues in the provincial tax police unit on charges of embezzlement and forgery. According to the first investigative investigations, several tens of thousands of euros would have been appropriated, seized during an anti-drug operation in 2019. The disappearance of the large sum was only recently discovered and Alessandro Tedde, 40, ended up in prison on Tuesday last. Yesterday morning, at the end of the validation hearing in front of the investigating judge Giorgio Altieri, the pre-trial detention in the Uta penitentiary was confirmed. Matteo Vinelli, lawyer of the financier, had asked for a less afflictive measure, for now denied by the judge. The defense is waiting to have all the acts of a story with some aspects still unclear.
The discovery
It is difficult to know more: the investigators of the tax police nucleus of the Guardia di Finanza maintain an impenetrable, and understandable, silence. The investigations, coordinated by the prosecutor Gaetano Porcu and carried out in a very short time and which triggered the detention of the judicial police, would have started when the return of a large sum of money seized three years ago at the end of an anti-drug operation was ordered from the Cagliari group. Several tens of thousands of euros were no longer to be found. Thus it came to who had taken care of the seizure of part of those sums. Thus, according to the reconstruction of the investigators, Tedde would have made a lot of that money disappear. Moreover, from here the accusation of forgery, he reported in the official documents of different figures, much lower than what actually ended up under seals for the part of his office's competence. Drugs and cell phones were also seized in that blitz.
The search
The investigations inevitably focused on the financier. And the colleagues of the provincial command took care of carrying out the immediate checks, carrying out a search in the house of the brigadier which had negative results. The elements collected however led to the arrest of the soldier: an emergency measure whose reasons were not disclosed. Yesterday morning Tedde, in the validation hearing before the investigating judge, availed himself of the right not to answer. In the next few days, his lawyer will have all the documents available to clearly reconstruct the story and thus provide the position of his client. Meanwhile, the forty-year-old remains in prison, in Uta, with the double charge of embezzlement and forgery. In the past, the military had become the protagonist, together with other colleagues, in important investigations and operations, especially in the city.
Matteo Vercelli