Giuseppe Orsi (born 24 November 1945 in Piacenza) is an Italian engineer, businessman, and corporate executive.
He had a long career at Finmeccanica, Italy's leading high-technology group, and in November 2011 was appointed its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.Orsi was arrested by Italian police in February 2013 on bribery allegations in the Indian Chopper deal scandal, and was released after three months.
However, on 9 October 2014, at the end of the proceedings of first instance, he was fully acquitted ("the fact did not occur") of international corruption and bribery allegations in the helicopter case, and was sentenced to two years in prison (sentence has been suspended) for false invoicing.
Orsi's lawyer, Giuseppe Amodio, has appealed against this punishment and affirmed that โwith regard to the two-year sentence for false invoicing, a part of those invoices is linked to non-existent transactions.
We are confident that this judgment will be reversed on appeal.โ However, in April 2016 an Italian appeals court sentenced Giuseppe Orsi to four and a half years in prison for corruption and falsifying invoices, overturning the previous lower court ruling.
Orsi remains free pending an appeal to Italy's Supreme Court.
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