Last summer, at the end of an abbreviated criminal trial, he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison because he was accused of confiscating thousands of euros from drug traffickers. Now the non-commissioned officer of the Guardia di Finanza, Alessandro Tedde, a 41-year-old deputy brigadier, has also received a fine from the Court of Auditors: He has to pay over 132,000 euros, plus interest and increases. to the Ministry of Justice.
The tax process
The first degree tax trial ended before the panel presided over by Judge Donata Cabras, where the soldier was defended by lawyers Giulio Steri and Francesco Cocco Ortu. The representative of the regional prosecutor’s office was deputy Fabiana Olla, who handled the case against the deputy brigadier of the Metropolitan Operations Unit of Cagliari, after the documents were transmitted by the prosecutor’s office, which led the criminal investigation into embezzlement and forgery. The crimes, according to the accusation, were committed between October 2019 and May 2022. The discovery The troubles for the sergeant began in 2021 when, during a check, it was revealed that the Unified Justice Fund (FUG) did not contain 77,420 euros that had been seized from a person arrested for illegally importing narcotics. “As part of the operational patrol,” the public prosecutor’s office disputes, “the patrol sergeant was responsible for the collection, preservation and safekeeping phase of the confiscated goods.” As it later emerged, the arrest was dated October 26, 2019, and after Confirmation of this, the public prosecutor ordered the money to be transferred to the FUG. Two years later, when it emerged that the money was missing from the fund, it emerged that other funds seized as part of anti-drug trafficking interventions had also been withheld by the military.
The investigations
The investigations carried out by the Guardia di Finanza itself would have – at least according to the prosecutor’s hypothesis – “certainly uncovered the fraudulent activities” and used the system to circumvent controls. A simple trick: the booklet in the name of the Fug, which the deputy brigadier would have shown to the superiors with the payment, would have been forged: instead of forwarding the over 77,000 euros collected in the anti-drug operation, it was only a thousand paid. The subsequent review of the files relating to the activity carried out by Alessandro Todde would have revealed many further cases of failure to make deposits of up to 132,415 euros. The amount demanded by the tax investigators. The difficulties that drove the soldier to commit crimes were the disastrous financial situation associated with the enormous debts that he had accumulated to his ex-wife, from whom he had divorced, and some colleagues. The defense pointed out that the financier was unemployed and in a very difficult economic situation and invoked the exercise of the power to reduce fees. The Court of Audit recognized malice in the behavior of the deputy brigadier and ordered him to pay the entire disputed amount to the Ministry of Justice. The verdict can be appealed.
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2024-03-10 18:23:48
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