The Crotone Court in collegial composition acquitted a manager who had been sent to trial for the crime of embezzlement, in relation to the failure to pay the amount of the stability law.
The manager, defended by the lawyer. Bernard Procopius of the Court of Crotone, argued during the proceedings that at the moment in which the burden of the payment arose for him, he did not hold the capacity of a person in charge of a public service, since the sum withdrawn by him, and intended for payment as Stability Law, the devices were not at that time covered by the constraint of destination towards the PA and, therefore, the failure to pay the concessionaire is not to be considered an embezzlement, therefore embezzlement, but a simple non-compliance, therefore to be prosecuted only civilly .
He further maintained, with regard to the intent of the crime, that it was not prosecutable for justified error on the extra-criminal law.
We await the justification for the sentence, which the Court reserved for 90 days.
