Compensated for one million euros after a serious accident, he entrusts his friend with 717 thousand for various financial transactions from 2015 to 2016. But was he aware of what he was doing or, as the prosecution claims in a trial that has reached its final stages today in court in Sassari, did the other, the associate, commit the most classic of incompetent deceptions against him? Between bank transfers, checks, payments for companies managed by the defendant over 60 in Porto Torres in favor of the injured party, aged 48, a fortune flies away. And the victim decides to file a lawsuit, assisted by the lawyer Carlo Angioy, believing she was defrauded.
On the other hand, the man, according to the indictment, suffers from "an adjustment disorder with anxiety and a personality disorder with evident and dependent characteristics". And an expert opinion carried out during the trial diagnosed him with "a mental deficiency".
Today in the hearing before judge Silvia Masala, the prosecutor Ilaria Achenza requested a dismissal because the crime is time-barred and, in any case, for her it would be misappropriation. The civil party lawyer instead requested a conviction, defining the experience lived by his client as “devastating” , and compensation for damages of 500 thousand euros while the defense, lawyer Carlo Manca, while reiterating the factor of the statute of limitations of the crime, also argued in another sense. Stating that the element of inducement was not demonstrated and that the injured party had always consented to the operations of the other, to whom he had also donated 200 thousand euros because he had been close to him in times of difficulty. Furthermore, he had also shown himself to be enthusiastic about the investments of the over 60 year old even if the latter, in real life, certainly does not work as a financial promoter or seem to be an expert in the matter.
The judge adjourned the case until February for replies and sentencing.