The preliminary hearing has opened before Judge Giorgio Altieri which will have to decide on the indictment of the leaders of Saras and Petraco , accused by the Cagliari Anti- Mafia District Directorate of money laundering , at the end of the investigation into the purchase of Kurdish oil from the 'Iraq.
The part of the investigation that hypothesized that crude oil was purchased by ISIS was removed and still under investigation, prosecutors Guido Pani and Danilo Tronci had solicited the trial for eight people, including the manager Dario Scafardi, in addition to Saras and Petraco companies. And this morning, before the Gup of the Court of Cagliari, the deputy prosecutor Pani renewed the request for indictment , while the first defenders who discussed in the courtroom asked for the acquittal.
The Iraqi state , called into question as an offended party, did not appear as a civil party .
In the end, the judge then postponed the hearing to October 20 and November 24 to get all the defenders to speak and decide.
Leading the pool of defenders are the lawyers Alfredo Diana, Francesco Mucciarelli, Alessandro Boni, Luigi Fornari, Franco Balsamo, Carlo Sassi, Francesco Centonze and Matteo Buzzone. The Cagliari DDA investigation was born in 2016 after the arrival in Cagliari of about thirty ships that investigators suspected contained Iraqi crude oil, according to the investigators' suspicions at that time in the hands of Daesh terrorists and purchased at an advantageous price.
