The Trieste Review ordered the return of the material to Roberto Pellizzari. Defender Paniz: “We are satisfied with the outcome that we had hoped for”
TRIESTE. First verdicts of the Trieste review court on the seizures challenged by the defense in the “Silk Road” investigation. The preventive seizure decree issued by the investigating judge Massimo Tomassini against the entrepreneur Alberto Soligon, 41, a native of Conegliano, the owner of the transport company Roberto Pellizzari, 50, of Belluno and the company Soligon spa of Santa Lucia di Piave, ordering the immediate restitution of what was seized from them and delegating the Finance Department for the execution.
The investigating judge ordered two seizures, one direct, the other for equivalent, of more than 33 million euros on the cash, real estate and financial assets of 10 suspects (including Pellizzari and Soligon) who are challenged with the hypothesis of association for crimes with different roles. The seizure against Soligon spa amounted to 8.1 million. Involved in the maxi-investigation of the yellow flames of Pordenone 58 individuals and 19 companies, 16 Italian, 3 of foreign law (Metal nordest, Femet, Ecomet). Illicit traffic of ferrous waste, issue and use of invoices for non-existent operations, fraudulent declaration, money laundering, administrative liability of entities and the alleged crimes challenged for various reasons.
Investigators believe that the association has handled 100,000 tons of ferrous waste since 2013 for more than 150 million euros of false invoices. The Fiamme Gialle discovered that the Italians at the top of the association were transferring money to China for non-existent purchases of steel and iron, used to cover illicit trafficking and tax fraud, while the Chinese, on accreditation, compensated for cash in Italy.
In Soligon, the prosecutor Federico Frezza of the Dda of Trieste disputed instead of having bought black scrap from unknown persons, reselling them thanks to the fictitious documentation provided by Metal Nordest, Femet and Ecomet, to Pellizzari for having carried out the transport, often with an empty load, on behalf of of these three companies. Soligon and Pellizzari are being investigated on the loose.
Soligon, assisted by the lawyer Maurizio Miculan, Soligon spa, defended by Vincenzo Arcidiacono and Pellizzari with the lawyer Maurizio Paniz were the first to apply for review. Their requests were accepted. The reasons have not yet been filed. At the hearing, however, the lawyer Miculan noted that in the seizure decree the investigating judge limited himself to recalling a series of measures (his precautionary custody order, the request of the prosecutor, the final note of the Finance), but without cite the contents or attach them. “In this way the provision of the investigating judge is completely lacking in concrete motivation and therefore null and void”, stated the lawyer Miculan. It is, therefore, a formal reason that made the act fail: every decision-making measure must in fact be self-sufficient.
“There are no signs of guilt”, added Miculan. Soligon spa invoices almost 100 million euros a year, among its suppliers there are the three companies in the center din the investigation: the company bought with a regular invoice, there is no proof of partial or total retrocession ». “We are satisfied with the outcome, we wished it and we felt we had provided a series of useful indications for the result,” said the lawyer Paniz.—