On Tuesday, the sixth section of the Court of Cassation annulled the sentence of the Court of Appeal of Florence which had overturned the acquittal issued by the Court of Livorno against the top management of the System Authority Port of Livorno and some entrepreneurs in the context of the proceedings relating to the hypothesis of ideological forgery related to the issuance of temporary authorizations within the port. The judicial affair concerns the management of some quays of the Darsena Toscana in Livorno, and in particular the modalities with to which the Port Authority had allowed some companies to use the docks, with the repeated use of authorizations of temporary occupation, renewed several times, instead of the recourse to a real state concession. The story had originated in 2018 also with the application of interdictory measures against the top management of the port authority and of some entrepreneurs, subsequently cancelled ( of 27 February and 27 August 2019).

The proceedings had seen the Court of Livorno in 2022 acquit all the defendants, considering the fact non-existent contested. In 2025, the Court of Appeal of Florence had reformed the decision of the first instance, condemning the President of the Authority of Sistema Portuale Stefano Corsini, the secretary general Massimo Provinciali and the entrepreneur Corrado Neri. For the other defendants - Matteo Paroli, Costantino Baldissara, Luca Becce, Massimiliano Ercoli and Corrado Neri - the statute of limitations had been declared. The the same sentence had also ordered the conviction of the defendants compensation for damages in favour of civil parties. With the sentence pronounced on Tuesday - the defenders announced of the defendants - the Court of Cassation has annulled all the convictions, also excluding the right of civil parties to compensation for damages.

The lawyer Fabio Viglione, defender of Stefano Corsini, already President of the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea Settentrionale / Livorno, highlighted that "the outcome of the judgment is fully consistent with what emerged in the trial and with what has already been ascertained by the Court of Livorno, which, at the at the end of an articulated hearing, had excluded the existence of of the disputed fact, recognizing the correctness of the conduct of the President Corsini, always oriented towards the protection of the interests of the public. The Court of Cassation, accepting our grounds of appeal, annulled the decision of the Court of Appeal that had overturned the first degree acquittal. Stefano Corsini, after so much suffering, can go with his head held high because this ruling incontrovertibly acknowledges the full correctness of the his work".

The lawyer Sabrina Franzone, defender of the former secretary General of the Port Authority of Livorno, Massimo Provinciali, expressed "great satisfaction with the ruling of the Court of Cassation which, accepting the grounds of appeal, excluded the merits of the objections on which the sentence pronounced on appeal, returning full recognition the correctness of the entity's action. The decision takes particular importance also for the position of Dr. Massimo Provincial, since he recognizes that he has always exercised its functions by pursuing exclusively the interests of the authority and the port community. These are A ruling that finally puts a full stop on a story and which confirms the consistency of the choices adopted with the institutional purposes of the Authority".