By: Tom Kington
Italy’s supreme court has ordered a retrial for Giuseppe Orsi, the former CEO at Leonardo-Finmeccanica, who was sentenced to four and a half years in April for his alleged role in helicopter contract kickbacks in India.
The decision means the supreme court found procedural errors in the April conviction, and has effectively voided that verdict, requesting a new trial take place.
The charges related to a 560 million euro deal to sell 12 AW101 helicopters to India in 2010, when Orsi was head of Agusta Westland, then a unit of Italy’s Finmeccanica, which is now known as Leonardo-Finmeccanica.
The twists and turns of Orsi’s legal odyssey since then are symptomatic of Italy’s lengthy and often convoluted three stage justice system.
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