The Hazzard trial on the alleged contracts piloted in the Marghine and Alto Oristano areas has reached its conclusion.
Today the verdict: the mayor of Borore Salvatore Ghisu was sentenced to 4 years and three months for embezzlement and forgery . Although acquitted on a dozen other charges, he was suspended from the office of mayor by virtue of the Severino law.
Also sentenced were the former municipal secretary of the Municipality of Borore Giuseppe Mura (three years and ten months for the crime of forgery) and the municipal technician Marco Contini (three years and six months for embezzlement).
The other acquittals came for Michele Corda, Luciano Fenudi, Antonio Contini, Salvatore Vinicio Vinci, Mario Uda, Stefano Maoddi, Mariangela Rita Sias, Giuseppe Mura and Elio Cuscusa. Maria Cristina Maccioni, Marco Contini, Michele Corda, Francesco Mura, Paolo Pirri, Maurizio Salvatore Cherchi, Elio Cuscusa and Mariangela Rita Sias were acquitted due to prescription.
The investigation started in 2015, from a report on alleged anomalies in the relationships between the municipal administration of Borore, the Union of Municipalities of Marghine and a series of professionals and entrepreneurs. According to the Oristano prosecutor's office there would have been tasks entrusted to "friends" and frontmen but also false municipal resolutions to obtain electoral gain. A series of protests that have partly fallen through.
According to the prosecutor Armando Mammone and today also according to the panel of judges (president Carla Altieri, alongside Federica Fulgheri and Marco Mascia) the mayor of Borore Salvatore Ghisu (defended by the lawyer Gianfranco Siuni) together with the then head of the technical office Marco Contini (assisted by Wally Salvagnini and Pierluigi Cappai) and the municipal secretary Giuseppe Mura (protected by Piero Franceschi) would have drawn up a resolution on the updating and reprinting of the notebooks of the Bread Museum but on 18 February 2015, the date reported in the deed, there would have been no council meeting. And according to the prosecution, that resolution would have been an artificial act to allow an illicit spending commitment. The defense also argued the opposite during the trial, bringing the recordings and minutes of that council meeting.
The other conviction for Mayor Ghisu came for chapter H, embezzlement: a 3 thousand euro transaction between the Municipality of Borore and an agronomist for the drafting of the plan for the economic use of the forest. According to the prosecution, the fee should not have been paid because the work had not been done correctly. While the defense claims that the procedure and the transaction were regular, that all the payments were traced (moreover authorized by the financial sector and not by the mayor). Finally, the conviction for item D, false, for Ghisu and the secretary Mura concerns the resolution on the identity cards in which the presence of the social services councilor who was not present was allegedly attested. This charge was dropped and Mayor Ghisu is on trial with another judge.
The three convicts announce an appeal.
