The judges of the review court rejected the appeal of the lawyers of the governor of Sardinia , Christian Solinas, against the probative seizure of the president's mobile phones , under investigation for corruption in the context of a double investigation into appointments and contracts.
The panel presided over by judge Giampiero Sanna therefore considered the provision of the deputy prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia to be adequately motivated who, coordinating the investigation by the Guardia di Finanza, ordered the acquisition of the telephones and other IT devices of Solinas, of his collaborator Christian Stevelli , the entrepreneur Roberto Zedda and the manager Roberto Raimondi. The four ended up in a double investigation by the prosecutor who disputes that Solinas had sold a property in Capoterra to Zedda in exchange for alleged favors and contracts with regional bodies granted to the entrepreneur.
The property, according to the allegations, would have been sold for 550 thousand euros , according to the prosecutor's consultants at 10 times its price, thus hiding what the investigators believe to be a real bribe.
In the second line of investigation, the governor ended up in the register of suspects together with his collaborator Stevelli and the manager Raimondi because the latter would have been appointed to lead an important regional agency in exchange for university lectures in Rome and Tirana and the promise of a honorary degree from the Albanian university.
The defense lawyers of Solinas, Salvatore Casula and Roberto Nati, had contested the seizure, believing that the conditions were not there . The judges of the re-examination instead considered the provision of the public prosecutor to be valid. In the meantime, however, the defense has filed a request on the evidentiary incident to the investigating judge of the court who will now have to decide whether to appoint its own expert to analyze the mobile phones or whether to leave it to the consultants of the prosecutor's office.
