The fact does not constitute a crime. The president of the Bnl, Luigi Abete , was acquitted by the Court of Cagliari, who ended up on trial in Cagliari on charges of bank usury for the rates applied by the credit institution on some mortgages. The panel of the first criminal section chaired by judge Giampiero Sanna accepted the request of the public prosecutor Diana Lecca who had asked to drop the accusation against the former number one of Confindustria.
After the indictment ordered by the Magistrate of the Court, Giampaolo Casula, despite the request for dismissal by the Prosecutor's Office renewed with a proposal not to prosecute, the manager - defended by the lawyer Luca Rampioni - ended up at trial on charges of having made his bank apply too high rates . The civil parties, assisted by the lawyers Marcello Colamatteo, Roberto Pusceddu and Francesco Roli, had instead asked for his conviction.
The investigation started from a complaint from a company that had been charged rates considered to be beyond the legal limits. The prosecutor had considered that Abete did not have awareness of the crime, in other words the subjective element would have been missing . It all started with the complaint from the company that owns the Setar hotel in Quartu Sant'Elena, which had taken out a loan with the BNL and reported interest rates that were higher than expected. The acquittal formula decided by the judges of the first criminal section of the Court of Cagliari accepts the reconstruction on the subjective element: the fact would therefore have happened, but it is not to be considered a crime against the former number one industrialist and the Bnl .
