Absolved, because the fact does not exist . The accusations of embezzlement against the former mayor of Carloforte, Marco Simeone , accused of having improperly used the service car when he was mayor of the Island of San Pietro to go to Cagliari, where instead he lived. In the first instance he was sentenced to one and a half years, while in the first appeal trial the sentence was reduced to 11 months. The Cassation had annulled everything, referring the proceedings to a different composition of the Court of Appeal .
And today the panel presided over by judge Tiziana Marogna reopened the preliminary investigation - as requested by the Supreme Court - and heard the former regional councilor for tourism, Massimo Deiana, who confirmed that the former mayor often went to the Region for reasons of his office . Hence the request for acquittal also from the Attorney General, later accepted by the Court which decreed that the fact did not exist.
«The Cassation established that what they could have challenged me, in any case», comments Simeone, happy with the sentence, «was the section from Cagliari to Quartu , where I live. That is, a few euros. In reality I saved the Municipality a lot of money and in spite of everything I was suspended for 18 months ».
The former mayor was accused of embezzlement for having used the car eight times for trips from Carloforte to Cagliari: trips that the Public Prosecutor had deemed non-institutional, but which now at the end of the appeal trial have been deemed legitimate .
