Fondi Lega, prosecutors in arrest request for accountants: “Infiltrating institutions. Fibrillation at the top of politics”

“Fibrillations at the top of politics”. The pm Stefano civardi and the deputy prosecutor of Milan Eugenio Fusco they write it on the arrest request that led to house arrest Alberto Di Rubba, former president of the Lombardia Film Commission and administrative director of the Lega in the Senate, Andrea Manzoni, auditor of the Carroccio in the Chamber, the other accountant Michele Scillieri and his brother-in-law Fabio Barbarossa, as part of the investigation into the purchase and sale of a shed to the Lombardia Film Commission.

An investigation intertwined and parallel to the one that led Genoa prosecutors to investigate money laundering. As reported by Ansa in the document present in the file with thousands of other pages of documents, the Milanese investigators, asking the judge for preliminary investigations of the measure, the investigators reason: if for “the reactions to the disciplinary disputes of a Supported Branch Manager“, The one from Ubi de Seriate (Bergamo), the accountants of the Lega Alberto Di Rubba me Andrea Manzoni “They immediately reach the highest levels of politics in Rome May 26 and 27So it is easy to imagine the reaction and the probative capacity for contamination of the people so infiltrated in the institutions ”. The “shed” operation, that is, the alleged inflated sale of a property to the Lombardia Film Commission, is indicated almost “Marginal in Suspicious Transaction Report on May 19, 2020“And” surely there are others to explore more delicate sectors in which the group of accountants used their professionalism. In addition – the prosecutors add – that the present matter has generated a fibrillation at the top of politics is proof of this in the confidential meeting held in Rome to study the defense strategies of the director of the Seriate branch of Banca Ubi “., Marco Ghilardi.

From this case, the former vice president of the Senate has now detached himself and has denied it, Roberto Calderoli, given by present in a meeting with Manzoni. “Whoever mentioned my name knows very little about me,” he says in an interview with La Stampa. Why? “Because I never go out to dinner. Always at home, at most in the Senate. To deny, I didn’t even have to look at the agenda. “Is it safe? Never say never.” Sure. Also, they write that Salvini would have been there too. Well: the last time I ate with him was two and a half years ago, and with another group“Definitely?” Yep. Since there is nothing wrong with this, I have never eaten with these gentlemen. In addition, the prosecutor also denies it, which is absolutely unusual. ” But does Senator Stefano Borghesi, who appears to have been at dinner, know him? “He is the chairman of the Senate Committee of which I am also a member, it would be very strange if I did not know him. All these reconstructions seem very unlikely to me“Are you yelling at the plot?” No, I do not believe in machinations that always leave the time they find. But if a story is made up to involve a political party ten days before the elections, some doubts arise. I will not say more. ”An interception by Manzoni on May 27 revealed the encounter:“ There was an encounter with … with Salvini, then I did not stop there to speak with Calderoli, but he called me (…) because since Tuesday in Rome, he tells me that for Tuesday morning we will meet, we will meet with all the political secretaries ”.

According to the findings, Manzoni and others used to meet in the capital and at that time they were concerned about some articles published and the dismissal of the manager of the Ubi branch in Seriate (Bergamo) where Di Rubba and Manzoni had opened accounts. His concern that he has put the League in “trouble” stems from an interception. The two asked the bank manager, he himself told Deputy Eugenio Fusco and the prosecutor Stefano Civardi, to open “accounts” in the name of “regional associations“Del Carroccio. Luca Sostegni, an alleged front man, was arrested in mid-July before arriving in Brazil, who is collaborating, the investigators asked him questions. in the final landing of money. Sostegni, however, clarified that the “mind” of the operatives, even those unknown to him and in the sights of prosecutors, was Scillieri. And in one of the minutes he related a joke that the professional would have made: he replied “are used for the election campaignTo his question “what do you do with all this money?” Scillieri, the documents say, “is a man of absolute confidence” of Di Rubba. At present, no traces of money destined for the League have been found in the investigations that, however, are intertwined with the Genoese on the laundering of famous 49 million euros. And the Milanese investigation also focuses on Francesco Barachetti, an entrepreneur in the construction sector, according to prosecutors, linked “to the world of the League.”

Meanwhile, the investigation travels and from the letters rogatory, released by the investigators over time, the answers arrive. Among these also a Panamanian trust company domiciled in Switzerland. Part of the 800 thousand euros collected by the “group” with the inflated sale of a property to the public body (owned by the Lombardy Region and the Municipality of Milan) would have ended up in the Panamanian company. Almost 300 thousand euros in total. A figure that emerged after the analysis of the Italian fiduciary Fidirev by the men of the economic and financial police unit. Investigations are being carried out to clarify the “final destination” of a section of the “offer” created with the deal in the shed without “a real economic justification”. In addition, the former president of the Lombardia Film Commission Alberto Di Rubba, administrative director of the Lega in the Senate, “he is not only a party man like Manzoni, but also public official placed by the party to preside over one of the many organs of the public administration through which public money is drained ”.

There is also talk of almost a million euros in car rental. “How is it that the car rental company billed the Lega almost a million euros in one year? Caz .. if they went around ha ha haAccountant Michele Scillieri said as he spoke to another suspect. The professional appears, as Milan prosecutors write, “to keep in his mental drawers more than a memory of significant robberies.” In the conversation of May 14, read by Ansa in a document filed by the Gdf, Scillieri says again: “How is it that Di Rubba has set up a luxury car showroom right next to Barachetti (Francesco, businessman investigated and close to the League, according to prosecutors, ed) who bought a building where he made the great headquarters of his company? But where does the money come from? ”.