The defense in Italy kept arguing a design defect was more to blame than the CEO’s negligence surrounding the defect.

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former Atlantia CEO Giovanni ‌Castellucci to 12 years in prison over the deadly 2018 collapse of a motorway bridge in the northwestern port city of Genoa.
Atlantia was the controlling shareholder in motorway operator Autostrade per l’Italia at the time of the disaster which killed 43 ​people when their vehicles plunged from the flyover.

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Castellucci is already in prison, serving a six-year ​sentence over another fatal incident in 2013 on a viaduct in southern Italy, and was not in court to hear the verdict.

Fifty-seven individuals were on trial, including company executives, engineers and transport ministry officials. The most serious charges include multiple manslaughter and ​criminal negligence.

Read that again. The CEO already was in prison for a similar crime from 2013.