Alberto Scanu, former president of Confindustria Sardegna and former CEO of Sogaer, the Cagliari airport management company, was sentenced to eight years in prison on various bankruptcy charges . Valdemiro Giuseppe Peviani, also on trial in the same investigation, was also sentenced to four years in prison . Paolo Zapparoli, Pier Domenico Gallo, Paolo Moro, Caterina Della Mora, Domenico Falchi, and accountant Enrico Gaia were acquitted because they did not commit the crime.
This is the ruling recently issued by the Second Criminal Section of the Cagliari Court, presided over by Judge Giovanni Massidda, which upheld the request for a conviction by Public Prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia, the person in charge of the case, for the former head of Confindustria.

The investigation concerned the bankruptcy of several Scanu group companies. Initially, the Guardia di Finanza estimated liabilities of approximately €60 million for ten bankrupt companies. This reconstruction was completely disputed by the defense lawyers. The court also requested that the case be returned to the prosecutor's office regarding numerous other disputes that had been identified as simple bankruptcy, alleging fraudulent bankruptcy.

The reasons for the ruling will be filed within 90 days, and the defense will be able to appeal.

"We express our profound shock and regret at a sentence we believe to be unjust, particularly the sentencing, which appears completely disproportionate to the alleged facts," commented Rodolfo Meloni and Tommaso Guerini, lawyers for Alberto Scanu. "While awaiting the Court's reasoning, which will include clarifying, among other things, how it was possible to convict Dr. Scanu in the total absence of evidence and for conduct allegedly committed within companies he never managed, we are preparing to face the appeal, confident that the defense's arguments will be adequately recognized there."