Former Monte dei Paschi di Siena
(MPS) chiefs Alessandro Profumo, now Leonardo CEO, and Fabrizio
Viola, as well as former college of auditors chief Paolo
Salvadori, were indicted in a derivatives case on Friday.
The MPS bank was also indicted as such.
The trial will start July 17.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to acquit all four.
The charges are share-rigging (except for Salvadori), and
accountancy fraud in accounts for the Santorini and Alexandria
derivatives.
Profumo said "I am surprised but my conscience is clear".
"We will prove that what we did was correct, and I have total
faith in the magistrature," he said.
In December a Florence appeals court acquitted three former
MPS chiefs, Giuseppe Mussari, Antonio Vigni and Gianluca
Baldassarri, of charges related to the restructuring of the
Alexandria derivative.
The three had been convicted and handed jail terms of three
years, six months in the first-instance trial.
MPS has seen a welter of probes and woes in recent years and
has gone through an expensive turnaround.
photo: Profumo (L) and Viola
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