UDINE. The “Sassari Olbia lot 2” was established in May 2015 in the legal form of a limited liability consortium company with a single purpose: the coordinated carrying out of the adaptation works of a road section between the Sardinian cities of Sassari and Olbia, in fact. For a 71 million euro contract.
Those were the golden years, when the “Vidoni spa” of Tavagnacco still had a significant specific weight in the national construction scene and a client, Anas, which later revealed itself to be the source of a large part of the group’s economic problems.
The criminal proceedings for the hypothesis of simple documentary bankruptcy and fraudulent bankruptcy landed in court in recent days against the then administrators of the consortium arises precisely from the period of crisis that, some time before, had invested Vidoni, owner of 80 for one hundred of the shares and which, in 2016, was declared bankrupt.
For the Public Prosecutor of Udine, the failure that in June 2017 led to the bankruptcy of “Sassari Olbia” would have been caused by the choices of its board of directors.
Thesis that, on Thursday 8 July, the gup of the court of Udine, Emanuele Lazzàro, decided not to share, expressing himself for the acquittal already in the preliminary hearing of the three accused. That is Marco Vidoni, 60, from Udine, Giovanni Bernardis, 51, resident in Patergassen Reichenau (Austria) – the only one for whom the same prosecutor, considering that he had left the company structure in unsuspecting times, with resignation resigned as an employee of Vidoni, he had finally made a request not to proceed -, and Franco Soldati, 61, of Udine.
“The fact does not exist”, declared the judge, sharing the arguments supported by the defenders, the lawyers Maurizio Conti (for Vidoni and Soldati) and Mario Occhialini (for Bernardis) for both counts.
As for the omitted filing of the financial statements at 31 December 2015 with the register of companies, it was agreed that it would be impossible to envisage the hypothesis of documentary bankruptcy, since it is a crime that cannot concern the financial statements, but rather any irregularities found in the “records accounting “.
Scriptures that the editor had attested to be kept properly. Also non-existent the hypothesis relating to a failure to write down the credit by Vidoni (as insolvent), for 289,230 euros.
In defining the wording of the accusation as “incomplete” with respect to the connection with the determination of the instability, the GUP recalled how the fate of “Olbia Sassari” had been marked exclusively by the bankruptcy of the parent company.
Not to mention, the lawyer Conti observed, that the credits could also have been enforced against the other members of the consortium, the “Cgs spa” of Tavagnacco and the “Movistrade Cogefi srl” of Alghero. Partners who, moreover, finished the work. –