Simone Uggetti, the former mayor of the city, Pd di Lodi, was sentenced to 10 months in prison. And it will be necessary to compensate the City which had not been established

It was May 3, 2016 when the mayor of the time Lodi, Simone Ugetti, elected with the Democratic Party, was overwhelmed by the investigation on procurement for managing the communal pools break the tradition of solid joints of center which from 1995 continuously ruled the city. In two and a half years, the judge Lorenza Pasquinelli sentenced to ten months in prison and 300 euros fine the former first citizen for auction disruption. The race of spring 2016 for the mission for six years of management of the outdoor pools of Belgiardino and via Ferrabini it was irregular.

The former mayor was also ordered to compensate the property damage and not patrimonial to the city of Lodi, to be liquidated in a separate judgment. Lodi's court recognized the right of the city to obtain compensation defendants despite the latter, relying on a external consultant that he had ruled out that there was damage he had decided to do not go to court. Represent the rights of the institution, a private citizen, Mbadimo Casiraghi, who has since become a member of the 5-star Movement: "For the first time in Italy, a court recognized that theinertia of the local body called to form a civil party exists even when the institution, while bustling to evaluate the case, declares not to constitute itself. "In other procedures, explains Casiraghi, the constitution of citizens for popular action he had not been admitted by the judge simply because the institution had been expressed "." Now, we will ask the civil court to quantification the damage suffered by the city, "concludes the councilor.

Uggetti has already announced that he would appeal the sentence on appeal: "This debate has not been in vain – he said – and has led light and truth to the factsbut we are still waiting for justice to be done. "His lawyer, Pietro Gabriele Roveda, explained: "as long as they do not take away the opportunity to appeal Supreme Courtwe will go there ", adding that, according to him, history did not justify l & # 39; arrest Uggetti, remained in the prison of San Vittore for ten days. Minor punishments were imposed three co-defendants for competition in the same charge.