6 years and 10 months

Conviction, with a bit of "discount", for Denis Verdini in court of appeal, in Florence, in the process of the accident of the Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino (Ccf), the bank of Campi Bisenzio of which he was president for twenty years for the charges, he was drained of enormous financial resources under his direction. The judges of the second degree imposed a sentence of 6 years and 10 months for fraudulent bankruptcy and, continually, for fraud to the State concerning the funds for the publication received between 2010 and 2011 by the newspapers of his group.

Confirmed the perpetual ban on public office. The substitutes pg Fabio Origlio and Luciana Singlitico had asked eight years. Compared to the first degree, where he was sentenced to 9 years, the sentence fell: but in reality, Verdini hoped to be acquitted, as heard on June 29 his lawyer, the lawyer Franco Coppi, as well that he himself with spontaneous statements where he was moved, he cried, saying that "it is not true that I wanted to bankrupt the bank, I gave everything for this bank. " For Coppi, the acquittal was to benefit Verdini from all charges. The court of appeal, on the other hand, has acquitted by way of statute only certain facts, such as allegations of state fraud for two years of editorial contributions, 2008 and 2009. "We are stunned, we are waiting to read the essential junctions of the sentence" commented the ex-lawyer Ester Molinaro, defender of Verdini alongside Coppi, while he was leaving the courthouse . Motivations will be ready within 90 days. Stamani Verdini was presented in the lobby giving the idea of ​​wanting to wait for the reading of the sentence

But when the judges returned from the council room, around lunch time, about three hours later, he was not there. Instead, he heard his friend Riccardo Fusi, a co-defendant. Fusi and the shareholder Roberto Bartolomei, owners of the ex-BTP, a construction company financed by the CFC, saw their sentence deteriorate: for them, the court of appeal decided 5 years and 10 months each (first 5 and half a year). Also because of the failure of the former Ccf are sentenced to 3 years and 4 months Monica Manescalchi and Leonardo Rossi. In addition, the court accepted plea bargaining for the former CEO of the bank Pietro Italo Biagini at 3 years and 10 months (in first instance 6 years for fraudulent bankruptcy), with temporary ban on public functions (first perpetual place), and many members of the board of directors and auditors, all at 1 year and 8 months of Fabrice Nucci (1 year and 9 months). For scam at the publishing fund the court of appeal sentenced, among others, the former ad and former member of Ala Mbadimo Parisi to 1 year, 5 months and 15 months. days, the former president of St. Girolamo Strozzi Majorca at 8 months and 15 days, the manager Pierluigi Picerno at 9 months and 15 days. Verdini and the other convicts must also reimburse the presidency of the Council of Ministers for civilian expenses. The Inland Revenue is also green.