Ex ASPI CEO Castellucci gets 12 years as Morandi-bridge disaster verdicts handed down

Giovanni Castellucci, the former CEO of the Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) highways company, was given a 12-year term on Thursday as the verdicts were handed down for the 2018 Morandi-bridge-collapse disaster in Genoa in which 43 people died. Prosecutors had requested a term of 18 years, six months for Castellucci, who is already in jail as he is serving a six-year term related to a crash on the A16 highway in 2013 near to the town of Monteforte Irpino, in the province of Avellino, in which 40 people died. In total the Genoa court convicted 32 defendants, including the former managers and technical officials of ASPI and its SPEA maintenance and road safety arm, and gave sentences for a total of almost 200 years for homicide, road homicide and culpable collapse. Another 25 defendants were a