According to the Milan gup, the new mayor of Turin, Piero Fassino, has the right to compensation of 40 thousand euros for moral damages. To pay the sum will be the entrepreneur Fabrizio Favata, also sentenced to two years and four months in prison. Judge Stefania Donodeo accepted the extenuating circumstances (and canceled the repeated conviction for bankruptcy), reducing the prosecutor's request, which was two years and eight months. “We have a bank!” was the intercepted phrase that Fassino addressed to Giovanni Consorte, CEO of Unipol at the time of the attempted takeover of Bnl. Fassino, at the time, was secretary of the DS.
According to the reconstructions of the trial, Roberto Raffaelli, owner of RCS, the company that supplied the interception devices to the judiciary, allegedly extracted the file with Fassino's phone call from the investigators' computer. Raffaelli gave the document to Favata, who went with Paolo Berlusconi to the villa in Arcore to let Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi listen to the conversation. The phone call was later published by Il Giornale, owned by Paolo, on December 31, 2005.
Raffaelli negotiated a sentence of one year and eight months with suspended sentence. Paolo Berlusconi has been indicted for complicity in disclosure of official secrecy, boasted credit and receiving stolen goods. The allegations of competition against the prime minister, however, should be dismissed next week due to lack of evidence.
