D'Addario, the former Sanitaservice manager close to Emiliano, acquitted on appeal: «A complaint was needed»

Charge downgraded from embezzlement to misappropriation and declared inadmissible due to lack of complaint. On this basis, the Court of Appeal of Bari acquitted the former general manager of Amgas Fabrizio D'Addario (in the meantime appointed sole director of Sanitaservice of the ASL Bari and suspended after the first degree conviction) of all charges.

The case involved the dismantling of an illegal Roma camp with Amiu vehicles on a private construction site in the Picone neighborhood, which cost D'Addario - in October 2024, 8 years after the events - a first-degree conviction for embezzlement to 3 years in prison, in addition to a lifelong ban from holding public office. At the time, in 2016, D'Addario was the general manager of Amgas, but the story did not concern Amgas, but rather another company owned by the Municipality of Bari, Amiu. D'Addario, in other words, was accused of having acted as an intermediary between Amiu and the Bari businessman Nicola Mininni to remove bulky waste, residues of an illegal Roma camp, from the construction site on Viale Pasteur where the businessman's company, Mi.Edil., was to build a residential complex. In addition to D'Addario (defended by the lawyer Michele Laforgia) and Mininni himself (defended by Filiberto Palumbo), Nicola Ferrara (at the time the team leader of Amiu, assisted by Piero Nacci Manara) had also been sentenced to three years in the first instance...