Year XVI -Issue. 07 - 2000

 

 

 

 

 

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III - The so called virtual manager As many reasserted, the crime about which at article 2621 n. 1 c.c. presumes a special personal position of the acting subject, position that is defined as of warranty for entrusting him the safeguard of the protected interests.

To such personal position it can be attributed different intensity meanings, according to the fact it refers to the required professional qualifications, that means the concrete practice of the functions corresponding to the required professional qualifications.

This last solution is the one followed the most by jurisprudence that coined, by giving in fact relevance to the practice of the functions to which the crime norm refers to, the figure of the so called virtual administrator.

As already highlighted, in the Italian legal system the figure at matter is matrix of jurisprudence. More exactly it dates back to 1926 the first sentence by which the Court of Cassation inaugurated this interpretative trend. Further, it must be taken into account that the interpretation principles we are going to examine have been mainly formulated in relation to the bankruptcy crimes (where such figure rises historically).

The circumstance that in our legal system the fatherhood of the figure of the so-called virtual administrator was in fact the jurisprudence, left surely margins of maybe too much approximation in reconstructing the case. That's why several authors arrayed in positions, decisively opposite to the configuration of such figure. Rather overcome by the doctrine today dominating, some of them presented argumentations especially suggesting. Among them, noteworthy is without any doubt Pedrazzi, who moves from the relief that, in virtue of the sanctionative character of the corporation crime norms, a professional qualification that must not deemed as worthy attributed according to the civil right, would not have importance neither within the ambit of the corporation crimes.

Against such observations doctrine is instead ever steady in underlining the ever increasing and acknowledged autonomous nature even of this sector from the crime right. Just in order to tighten the interpretative links concerning the operativeness of such institution, the legitimacy jurisprudence set out that it is recognizable the liability of the virtual administrator for violation of the duties related to the managing activity, when it is not proved the extraneousness to this activity by the proxy. Also the legitimacy jurisprudence has contributed to specify the institution at matter, by individuating two parameters, the first constituted by the position in concrete took on by the virtual administrator, fit to make offence or to endanger the interests safeguarded by the norm, and the second one constituted by the attribution of the decisional power concerning the management of the corporation capital. In an early study carried out by Bricchetti and concerning the false accounting, he dealt with some items, especially hard about the following points:

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