Guido Bertolaso, the former head
of the civil protection department, was acquitted on Thursday of
charges related to alleged corruption for contracts for the 2009
Group of Eight (G8) summit in Italy.
The court said the crime was not committed.
The judges convicted former public works chief Angelo
Balducci and businessman Diego Anemone, on the other hand, and
sentenced them to prison terms of six years, six months and six
years respectively.
Former finance police general Francesco Pittorru got four
years and former Tuscany public works official Fabio De Santis
got four and a half.
"Cleared. Cleared because the crime was not committed despite
the request (from prosecutors for the case to be dropped) for
timing out. This amounts to a double acquittal," Bertolaso said.
"I am innocent and I always said so.
"Now the judges have said so too".
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