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dark bincher
Half or nearly a government is outlawed. And not just any law, but a flag law of M5s and Pd, the two main shareholders of the executive that Giuseppe Conte presides over: the conflict of interest. They want to make a new one, but meanwhile they do not respect the small obligations provided by the current one. The bitter surprise comes from the new semi-annual report of the Competition Defense Authority (Agcm) on the conflict of interest that has just been sent to the two Chambers: up to 134 relatives of the 68 ministers and undersecretaries currently in office (including the first minister) refused to send to the authority despite numerous requests for their wealth declarations, which by law are instead “due.”
The names of the families who have violated the law do not appear on the list, because their privacy is guaranteed by the authorities. In addition, it is guaranteed for the 174 family members of ministers and undersecretaries who have complied with the legal obligation to transfer all their assets: real estate, participations in companies, positions held, personal property in investment possession. No particular detail in recent months has escaped the tight antitrust nets, a news leak has not occurred as has also happened with previous governments: precisely for that reason it is not clear why 44% of relatives are forced to disclose your assets. has defied the law to keep it secret. What do they have to hide?
Just a week ago, the regent of the 5 Star Movement Vito Crimi imperiously announced the forthcoming presentation of a very strict law on conflict of interest: here, perhaps in the meantime, he could work to enforce the law at least for his, if not your allies. that exists and is in force. It is not the personal case of Crimi himself, who presented the patrimonial declaration as a deputy, the same obligation fulfilled by his fellow M5 deputy, Paola Carinelli. But this very case indicates why it is important not to break the law at this point. Carinelli, in fact, complying with the obligation, denounces the ownership of a significant stake in two companies, one of which is the one founded by his family, Biochim srl (which also fully controls Coslab Tecnologia Cosmetica srl). It is an important company in the cosmetic sector specialized in natural products and with the emergence of Covid it has also begun to produce hand gel that could also serve as bread for the public administration. For the purposes of possible conflict of interest (which does not exist at this time) therefore this is important information
Having dismantled numerous laws in recent years that required transparency in asset disclosure and political financing, many obligations have been skipped. Therefore, the relatives of parliamentarians and ministers can refuse to publish their statements online, but they cannot do so in violation of antitrust laws. The reason is easy to understand: a minister could be in clear conflict of interest with his function, but hide it perhaps by registering the participation of a company or professional office to his wife or children. The conflict would be the same as before, but if these statements are protected, the antitrust authority could not intervene to eliminate it. The opacity on the own patrimony chosen by 134 relatives of the members of the current government is, therefore, very serious.
In its report, thanks to the transparency shown, the Agcm acquits one of those families: the one made up of the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri and his wife. The conflict of interest had been foreshadowed by the couple accusing the lady of being an agent for a company attached to a Roman hospital contract for the supply of non-invasive ventilation masks. At the end of the investigation, the authorities found that there was no conflict of interest, both because the contract was prior to the date of Sileri’s appointment, and because the controls on the role of his wife “gave negative results: she is not registered in the registry. of companies as agent or representative, and it was found that he is the owner of a subordinate labor relationship governed by the national collective agreement, with a position that does not contemplate the performance of the functions of informant / promoter “.
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