Elisabetta Gregoraci and Flavo Briatore
Innocent Briatore, he did not defraud the taxman with his yacht: the confiscation and seizure of over 3 million has been revoked
Flavio Briatore has been acquitted by the court of appeal of Genoa together with three other people “because the fact does not constitute a crime “ In the process on the affair of Force Blue yacht. Briatore was on trial for one tax evasion of over 3 million on VAT and for charter activities. The maxi yacht was seized in 2010, off the coast of La Spezia, while the manager was on board with Elisabetta Gregoraci and the son. The judges have revoked the confiscation of the boat (which however has already been sold to Ecclestone) and of the 3 million and 600 thousand euros, reports the Ansa. Briatore will receive the amount that the state had collected from Ecclestone for the yacht. The Cassation had overturned the sentence of the Court of Appeal which sentenced Briatore to 18 months and had ordered a new trial.
Briatore: “An ordeal ends. My innocence is finally ascertained”
“In May 2010 the Guardia di Finanza seized my boat and the news that I was a tax evader came out in the media all over the world. Today, after 12 years and 6 trials, my innocence has finally been ascertained. A real ordeal which fortunately ended “. So’ Briatore commented on the news of the acquittal by the Court of Appeal of Genoa in a post on Instagram. “I thank all the professionals who have followed me in this story: Franco Coppi Massimo Pellicciotta, Fabio Lattanzi, Giuseppe Sciacchitano, Andrea Vernazza and Andrea Parolini”, added the entrepreneur.
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