E 'news a few days that a former British MP, David Chaytor, was sentenced by a court of His Majesty to eighteen months in prison without parole for having requested and obtained a refund from the state coffers to pay of the rental of an apartment is necessary for its parliamentary activity.
But it was found that the tenant of the apartment was none other than the daughter of Chaytor. Repenting of the act, was not re- elections and signed a check equal to the amount wrongfully received by adding the interest (19,327 pounds to the forehead of a fraud amounting to 18,350 pounds).
This does not, however, has avoided jail when the doors opened immediately after the conviction of First Instance.
He wrote the judge, in the grounds of its pronounced "The scandal of the costs did shake confidence in the legislature, and when a public official is guilty of such offenses must follow penalties so that people are aware of how important to be honest in dealing with public funds. "
The scandal of the "inflated costs" was in 2009 and was revealed by the Daily Telegraph; this led to the resignation of cabinet members and parliamentary government but in the end, it seems that David Chaytor will only pay for everyone.
But what would happen in Italy?
guess.
1) At least three prosecutors are slaughtered sarebnbero to win the title of the investigation;
2) investigated the lawmaker would not have resigned;
3) the parliament would not accept any request for authorization of arrest;
4) the lawmaker would have cashed the solidarity of his political party believes that this was a ploy to discredit and, not just to satisfy the "speculation", the MP would be resubmitted to subsequent triumph elections, where they would be seen to reconfirm the mandate;
5) the process would end nine years later, after ending the three sets of proceedings or a sentence of not time-barred from prosecuting the offender or a conditionally suspended sentence; in a nutshell, even an hour in jail.
The proof?
In Bologna, one year ago this time the accused was neosindaco Delbono, documentary evidence in hand, he had charged body region, which until a few years earlier had been vice president, travel expenses and subsistence (amounting to little more than twenty thousand euro) of his mistress-secretary who accompanied him in his "mission" institutional abroad (where our rather participate in the work he went to the beach with his lovely).
Delbono dell'immunuità could not enjoy parliamentary immunity and, therefore, also for the local emphasis that the story had taken on, after a scandalous cover-up attempt by the prosecutor of the republic added (which in the past had not spared preventive arrests militants of MSI, based on theorems proven to be fake then fantastic: the dott.Persico) started an investigation that led then tightened all'incriminazione.
Delbono, accused of embezzlement and fraud, after the region compensated for the damage suffered, has asked to negotiate the penalty and, in agreement with the prosecutor who has given his consent, has indicated in one year, seven months and ten days of accepting the sentence be imposed.
There are clear similarities between the two situations: diversion of public funds equal amounts, damages caused and sentenced to a term very close to the amount (eighteen months each, nineteen others).
But there is a substantial difference Chaytor entered immediately in jail while Delbono not only got the suspended sentence, but thanks to the fact that it is less than three years, will return to teach at the University of Bologna. I'm not a
forcaiolo and I am pleased to wish sanctions and punishments to anyone but is it possible that those who have been guilty of acts of appropriation of funds public can continue to play an institutional role - executive, clerical or intellectual to be? In Italy
yes you can.
think that all this has nothing to do with the crisis affecting it? Do you think the degradation, economic, political, social, and civic education is independent of the climate of impunity for years that you breathe in the country?
impunity, we must admit, is really cross because, apart from high-profile cases, involving all levels: from crime delinquency vulgar smaller than the finest.
It shows that, if ever proof were needed, that these institutions are still a "power" when it serves their interests capable of drilling up to abuse, but have lost all sense of "authority".
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