Two leaders of the RINA are placed under house arrest in the within of the investigation on della Torre collapse Pilots of Genoa



Today the soldiers of the Customs corps of Genoa, in the within of the investigations of the local Public Prosecutor's Office on della Torre collapse Pilots of the port of happened Genoa in May 2013 because of the collision of the Jolly Nero ship against the building, house arrests) regarding two leaders of Italian Registry of Shipping (RINA have executed two precautionary decrees () attache's to the release of the certifications previewed for the prevention of incidents in sea that put in danger human lives and the atmosphere.

The two engineers are inquired for crimes of forgery of a public document, also in via computer science, in relation to the release of certifications she is relatively to the Jolly Nero ship of Ignazio Messina & Co. that to the same company of genoese navigation. The facts - the Customs corps have explained - regard prescription emitted to the aim to limit the dangerous consequences of malfunzionamenti of the main engine of the same type of those which they have carried to the disaster of Jolly Nero.

Moreover two ulterior invitations are notified to stand trial for the preliminary investigations to two officials of the Harbour office, one of room to Genoa and one to Naples. The officials were taken part in the disposed additional verification regarding the Ignazio Messina society after the della Torre disaster Pilots. The facts object of the imputations regard periods are antecedents that next to the incident.

The Guard of Finances has announced that an ulterior tradition of investigation still regards crimes of false certifications, always to work of inspectors of safety of navigation of the RINA, within verifications times to the document release/certifyd attesting the correspondence of the necessary standards of safety of the ships examined to requirement previewed from the national and international norms.

In particular, the investigators of the Operating Nucleus of Genoa have found that, in two cases at least distinguished, the bulkhead of collision of fleeting ships has not turned out consistent to the norms elaborated from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that they describe to requirement minimums of safety previewed from international convection SOLAS (sea Safety of life at) time to protecting safety of navigation, with explicit reference to the safeguard of the human life in sea. Based on the outcomes of the investigations - he has specified the Customs corps - one in particular considers that they did not correspond to true the certifications emitted from the RINA with regard to the observance of the previewed technical norms and "the relative details to the watertight compartizione" of the ships interested from the assessments.

Assessments are on also on ulterior regarding crimes of false other ships between which Norman Atlantic, the ferry on which at the end of 2014 a fire exploded that caused 11 victims, 16 dispersed and some tens of the wounded.

In a note, the RINA has manifested full confidence regarding the magistracy emphasizing that the company considers completely legitimizes that the magistracy puts into effect an action of verification on an important activity as that which it carries out. Moreover the company has specified is collaborating in order to make available to the judicial authority all the information that can be useful.

Restating that the RINA applies in own activity all enforced the national and international norm and is equipped of the operating models previewed from decrees legislative 231/01, the company of classification and certification have remembered that own activity strongly is ordered so much so that every year the society is subordinate more than 200 audit/controls by external subjects of verification, comprised the administrations of flag, the EU commission and the organisms of accreditation, this to guarantee of its good acts.