Mr Carlo De Benedetti’s lawyers comment on the verdict concerning the acquittal of Mr De Benedetti in the investigation of Olivetti supplies to the Italian Public Administration.


Regarding the acquittal of Mr Carlo De Benedetti in the investigation of Olivetti supplies to the Italian Public Administration, Mr De Benedetti’s lawyers, Marco De Luca and Massimo Krogh, made the following comments:


“Mr De Benedetti lived through his painful legal experience in a climate of calm and civilized expectation that justice would be done. Today’s ruling, confirming his previous acquittal, rewards once and for all, establishing his complete entrepreneurial correctness.
Naturally he feels very bitter about the fact that he had to wait so many years for the proof that the charges levelled against him were totally groundless”.


Milan, July 20 2005