A criminal hearing before the Tempio Preliminary Investigation Judge (GUP) will be held in February next year, with the first claims for compensation (rejected by the civil judge). The case of the Olbia-based Nautica Acqua shipyard, destroyed by a fire on April 22, 2025, is now before the courts. The company's warehouses in Cala Saccaia were destroyed by the flames, along with forty vessels (yachts and luxury motorboats). Tempio prosecutors have signed the request for indictment of the case pending in one of the worst disasters in the history of Italian recreational boating.
The principal targets of the indictment request are Stefano Gaias, director of Nautica Acqua, represented by lawyers Stefano Oggiano and Ernesto Monteverde; Federico Azara, legal representative of the Maori yacht company; and Oberdan Chimenti, de facto director of the same company, represented by lawyers Sebastiano Giaquinto, Giampaolo Murrighile, Giuseppe Farris, and Carlo Di Casola.
The charge is one of negligent arson, also attributed, according to the Tempio Pausania Prosecutor's Office, to the alleged failure to comply with safety measures (alleged deficiencies and violations of fire safety regulations). As for the Maori company, it is implicated as the builder of the yacht from which the fire allegedly started. It should be noted that the Prosecutor's Office's consultants have ruled out any "construction defects in the Maori vessel."
VIPs and international yacht charter companies (represented by lawyers Giovanni Azzena, Nino Vargiu, and Mariano Mameli) are the injured parties listed in the latest investigation into the disastrous fire at the Olbia shipyard. Among those injured are Mikasa Luxury Management, which lost five vessels, the Maltese Dolphin 05 Malta Ltd, the Italian Football Federation Commissioner Giovanni Malagò, and Tommaso Cavalli, son of Roberto Cavalli. The Tempio Pausania Court has rejected the initial claims for compensation, with total damages estimated to amount to hundreds of millions of euros.
