Rule reminder
Italian crime and justice reporting uses: passive voice to foreground victims/outcomes, the hearsay conditional for unproven allegations, legal vocabulary (il pm = pubblico ministero/prosecutor, la procura = prosecutor's office, il gip = giudice per le indagini preliminari/examining magistrate, rinviato a giudizio = committed to trial, assolto = acquitted, condannato = convicted), and careful distinction between investigated and proven.
If the article later reported that one of the fourteen businessmen denied all charges, which sentence would be most appropriate?