Nine years and 4 months for the former publisher Alberto Rigotti, 5 years for the founder of the free press Nicola Grauso, then other sentences ranging between 3 and 6 years of imprisonment for various other defendants and some acquittals. These are the conviction requests requested at the end of his indictment by the public prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia at the trial for the alleged 130 million euro collapse of the Epolis editorial group Epolis, which published numerous newspapers in various regions of Italy.
Eight years after the indictment formalized by the Gup of the Court of Cagliari, Giovanni Massidda, the hearing arising from one of the most complex bankruptcy investigations ever carried out in Sardinia, which resulted in over forty charges against various accused suspects, has ended. of having caused the bankruptcy of the Epolis company and the Publiepolis advertising agency.
The other sentencing requests are 6 years and 2 months for Sara Cipollini, Vincenzo Greco and Alessandro Valentino, 4 and a half years for Michela Veronica Crescenti, 4 years for John Gaethe Visendi, 3 years for Rosanna and Rosalba Chielli and the acquittals of Claudio Noziglia and Anna Abbatecola. For various positions, in any case, the public prosecutor Pilia requested a large number of acquittals and prescriptions.
The investigation had led to the arrest of the company's top management: in addition to Rigotti, the vice president of the company, Sara Cipollini, and the board of directors Vincenzo Maria Greco. Cipollini and Greco were immediately placed under house arrest, while the prison doors were opened for Alberto Rigotti.
In 2016, the former vice president of the advertising agency Publiepolis, Carlo Momigliano, was acquitted of bankruptcy charges in the trial over the alleged millionaire collapse of the Epolis publishing group, which published a large number of newspapers in various regions in Italy. He was the only one of the defendants to choose the abbreviated procedure in the trial for the alleged bankruptcy of Epolis.
