The second Court of Appeal of Milan acquitted Marco Tronchetti Provera "because the fact does not constitute a crime", accused of receiving stolen goods in the so-called Kroll case. The trial was celebrated after the Cassation had annulled a previous acquittal sentence. Tronchetti had waived the statute of limitations.
“When you have faith in justice and I have always had faith, in the end you have justice”. This is how Marco Tronchetti Provera commented on the sentence pronounced in the evening by the Milan Court of Appeal which acquitted him of the charge of receiving stolen goods in the Kroll case. In this proceeding, the chairman of Pirelli had in the past renounced the statute of limitations and had always claimed to be innocent. “After so many years – he added – this is a very important day of clarity. We are in a democratic country in which the State and Justice must be respected, which is the pillar on which the democratic state is founded".
