Accountants of the League, when Salvini threatened complaints: “People never seen or known.” Now he says, “They’re honest, I know two out of three.”

When on July 16 investigators from the Milan Yellow Flames economic and financial police unit stopped Luca Sostegni while fleeing in Brazil, the secretary of the Northern League Matteo salvini He denied knowing the people involved in the investigation into the “inflated” sale of a property on behalf of the Lombardia Film Commission. “From now on I want it who comes close to my name never seen or known people“The former Interior Minister thundered. But now that three counters close to the League ended up under house arrest with the accusation of having planned, together with Sostegni, the “inflated” sale of a building in Cormano On behalf of the Film Commission, Salvini claims “to know two of the three people” arrested. However, already on the day of Sostegni’s arrest it was learned that the investigation referred to the three professionals known to be close to the League: they were under investigation and now it turns out that already at that time the Milan prosecutors had requested their arrest. The discovery of the investigation came about because Sostegni was about to flee to Brazil.

The Milan examining magistrate’s order executed on the afternoon of September 10 refers to Alberto Di Rubba, Andrea Manzoni me Michele Scillieri: all three are mentioned several times in the various streams of inquiries about 49 million euros of public funds destined for the Northern League and the object of a fraud against the State. Di Rubba and Manzoni are the professionals from Bergamo whom Jules Centemero, treasurer and parliamentarian of the League, has entrusted the party accounts: I am, respectively, the fiscal auditor of the group in the Senate and the administrative director of the Chamber. Scillieri, for his part, has a studio in via Privata delle Stelline 1, in Milan, where ilfattoquotidiano.it discovered that the ghost headquarters of the Premier League for Salvini, the new national party created by the former Interior Minister.

Salvini, interviewed this morning in Radio too On the first radio channel Rai, he explained that he was “very calm”, because “they have been looking for money in Russia, in Switzerland, in San Marino, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, but there are none. I know two of the three people, they are honest and fair people and therefore I doubt they asked or made something wrong. But I have full confidence in the judiciary ”. Then he added: “The League takes the money it takes, it takes it by the way. Italian donations. I tell that it will be resolved in nothing. She remembers the Senator Siri, for months in the newspapers as the meanest and most scoundrel person in the world? Have you ever heard of him? No, because he did nothing ”. The reference is to Armando Siri, Senator del Carroccio investigated by corruption by the prosecutor of Rome.

However, two months ago, when the Film Commission case exploded, Salvini’s line was different. “The patience of decent people has a limit,” he wrote on Facebook, announcing complaints to anyone who would have compared him to those “people” who say they do not have. “never seen or known“. “Clock defamatory by profession we will see each other in court, hoping not to find any Palamara ”. The truth, according to the investigation papers, is that the group of suspects “benefits from important positions still covered by some of its members in the organization charts of numerous companies and entities, also including matters of private law with public participation. “The investigating judge also refers to a spontaneous statement made by Manzoni to prosecutors in recent days. The accountant allegedly” learned from Di Rubba of the financing provided by the Region in favor of “the Foundation (for the purchase of the property in Cormano) on the occasion of” some visits to the campus of the League in Milan in via Bellerio “.