Silvana Saguto the anti-mafia judge who tried Riina was sentenced to 8 years
Sentenced also on appeal the ‘System Saguto‘. The former judge Silvana Sagutohead of the Preventive Measures section of the Court of Palermo, had 8 years 10 months and 15 days of imprisonment. She is accused of having managed in a patronage and illegal way the assets seized and confiscated from the Mafia. Four months longer than the first instance which ended on 28 October 2020. The sentence was read by the President of the Court of Appeal of Caltanissetta, Marco Sabella, after three hours in a council chamber. The Attorney General of Caltanissetta he had asked the court to sentence the former judge to 10 years in prison. The lawyer Gaetano sentenced to 7 years and 7 months Chaplain Seminarathe king of judicial administrators (one month more than in the first instance, on appeal the request for the prosecution was 8 years and 3 months), who would have received various assignments from the former judge Silvana Saguto).
“It will be necessary to carefully read the reasons. The device is very long and detailed. The sentence confirms the system that had already been considered by the first instance judge”, comments the pg of Caltanissetta Antonino Patti, who adds: “I would not talk about successes or failures. In principle, the accusatory system has been maintained, except for the weakening of some secondary satellite crimes compared to the main facts. compared to our expectations “. Confirmed 6 years and 2 months a Lorenzo Caramma, husband of the judge. Son Emanuele Caramma he was sentenced to 4 months instead of six in the first degree. Same sentence, 3 years, for the former prefect of Palermo Francesca Cannizzo; and for the former professor of the Kore University of Enna Carmelo Provenzano (six years and 10 months). Sentenced to 2 years and 8 months Rosolino Nascadirector of the Dia from Palermo. Sentences the judicial administrator to 4 years and two months (instead of 6 years and two months) Roberto Santangelo. One year and 4 months (instead of one year and 10 months) for Walter Virga. Maria Ingrao and Calogera Manta were sentenced to 2 years and 8 months. One year and ten months of imprisonment for the dean of the Faculty of Law of Enna Roberto Di Maria. The lieutenant colonel of the Guardia di Finanza, Rosolino Nasca, former director of the Dia di Palermo, was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months.
“I am the only woman who had the courage to silence Totò Riina and who, together with the Court of Assizes, inflicted 13 life sentences on him”, he declared in Panorama in 2018. Saguto, in fact, in a famous hearing in the trial of head of Cosa Nostra had been the protagonist of an altercation with the Corleone boss.
The trial of Salvatore Riina
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