Top court upholds MPS acquittals

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 11 - Italy's supreme Cassation Court on Wednesday upheld the acquittals of all 15 defendants in a case involving struggling Tuscan lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the world's oldest continually active bank.
    They were definitively cleared of irregularities in the structured finance transactions Alexandria and Santorini, Chianti Classico and Fresh, carried out by MPS between 2008 and 2012.
    The defendants included former MPS chairman Giuseppe Mussari and former managing director Antonio Vigni.
    They were earlier acquitted on appeal on 6 May 2022. (ANSA).