The sentence to three and a half years' imprisonment for embezzlement of the former president of Cagliari football Massimo Cellino was requested today by the deputy general attorney Liliana Ledda in the appeal process linked to the investigation into the construction of the Is Arenas stadium in Quartu Sant' Elena , who was supposed to replace the unusable Sant'Elia to host the rossoblù matches.
The prosecution also asked for sentences of 4 years for the former mayor of Quartu Mauro Contini and the former councilor for public works Stefano Lilliu , three years and three months for the municipal engineer Andrea Masala and two years' imprisonment for the technician Raffaele Perra .
The Attorney General therefore believes that the defendants are guilty of embezzlement, a crime from which they had been acquitted in the first instance point 1, while the landscape and environmental disputes are now time-barred.
The prosecutors Enrico Lussu and Gaetano Porcu had appealed , having challenged the two-year prison sentence of the former president of Cagliari Cellino for landscape violations, but had acquitted him of the heavier charge of embezzlement .
The Public Prosecutor had considered that the Is Arenas stadium , built in 2012 to host Cagliari matches due to the unavailability of Sant'Elia, was an illegal building. The two magistrates had hypothesized that the money spent by the Municipality for the connecting road, the fence and an electrical substation (about 360 thousand euros) constituted a peculation against the municipal coffers and in favor of Cagliari football.
