Lega Fund Investigation, The Witness: “Never-Before-Seen Money Movements in My Whole Career”



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An Italian flag and a Lega flag are flown at the Lega meeting in Pontida on July 1, 2018. ANSA / DANIEL DAL ZENNARO

If now the researchers are clear that from the inflated sale of a property in Cormano, in the Milan area, the “group” drained € 800 thousand of “public funds”, “certainly other sectors still more delicate in which the ‘pool’ of Accountants ”close to the League, which ended up under house arrest on Thursday, has moved in. Facts that could make the shed case” marginal. “Indeed, from the thousands of pages of archived documents Many financial transactions and movements arise in the investigation, especially by Alberto Di Rubba and Andrea Manzoni, the two Carroccio accountants, “people so infiltrated in the institutions,” the prosecutors write, and capable of “immediately reaching the highest levels. highs of politics in Rome “.

In the investigation based on the Lombardia Film Commission case, the areas to be explored, including that of the alleged ‘black funds’ collected by professionals for the party, arise from information from the Gdf’s Economic and Financial Police Unit and from the testimonies delivered to deputy Eugenio Fusco. and at pm Stefano Civardi. “They are transactions without valid economic reasons that, beyond the amounts, I have not seen in my entire career. And I worked in the bank for almost thirty years ”, said Marco Ghilardi, former director of the Ubi branch in Seriate (Bergamo) where the company’s accounts attributable to Manzoni and Di Rubba were open, the latter being“ placed by the party ” , by pm, “to preside over one of the many undergrowth organs of public administration,” the LFC.

Just when at the end of May Ghilardi risks his removal, which will happen then, for not having reported suspicious transactions, Di Rubba, administrative director of the Senate, and Manzoni, auditor of the Chamber, “immediately reach the highest levels of politics. in Rome during May 26 and 27 “for a” confidential “meeting, since, prosecutors say, there were” fibrillations. ” The meeting was not recorded and therefore it is not known exactly who participated and investigators have reconstructed it by wiretapping. “There was a meeting with … with Salvini – says Manzoni on May 27 – then I did not stop there to speak with Calderoli, but he called me”.

Although the papers show that the number of suspects is greater than five people as a precautionary measure, including the other accountant Michele Scillieri, and almost ten (there is also a suspect for money laundering), the Ghilardi bank account is opened . scenarios. She explained that on behalf of the ‘Pi<2MASCULINE> Voci’ association, of which the treasurer of the Northern League, Giulio Centemero, was the legal representative, “transfers of a significant amount were also processed.” And he said that when he told Di Rubba “the impossibility of being able to proceed” with the opening of accounts for the territorial articulations of the League, the professional “in response he wrote to me: ‘you told me it was possible, then I close everything.” The bank also spoke of the “movements registered in the accounts” of two other accounting firms, the Sdc and Studio Cld, and recalled the “numerous credits from Lega Nord, always with the same motive of ‘balance of the invoice'”.

Other “problems”, added the witness, “in my opinion refer to the economic expansion of the company ‘Not only itself’, always attributable to Di Rubba (…) in recent years the main client of the company it’s always the Lega party. ” . And so Scillieri commented intercepted: “How is it that the car rental company has billed almost a million euros to the League in one year? Caz .. if they walked ah ah ah “A beacon is also lit on the businessman Francesco Barachetti, under investigation and according to investigators close to the League from which he would have raised a lot. In February 2018, writes the GDF, he also bought 45 thousand euros in rubles and transferred them to a Russian company.



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