Fondi Lega, the risk of the immediate process for accountants: “A plan to sell via Bellerio”

MILAN – Process with the «immediate» rite that skip the preliminary hearing and goes straight to court with the three accountants close to League of Matteo salvini under house arrest. This hypothesis is discussed at the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office while the detainees are questioned in the investigation into the sale to the Lombardia Film Commission Foundation of a building in Cormano for 800 thousand euros It ended up almost entirely in the pockets of the three main suspects. The “immediate” rite requires that the proof of the crime be evident.

In the hands of prosecutors Eugenio Fusco and Stefano Civardi there is a large number of documents, thousands of pages archived after the Guardia di Finanza of Milan notified the house arrest to Alberto Di Rubba, administrative director of the League in the Senate, Andrea Manzoni, auditor of the Carroccio in the Chamber, and his colleague Michele Scillieri, in whose Milan office in 2017 the “League for Prime Minister of Salvini”. (Here the portrait of the three detained accountants)

It would be an “immediate precautionary measure” that prosecutors must request within 6 months of the arrests in which the accused remains detained. If convicted, they risk a very stiff sentence. before the accusation of embezzlement of funds, alteration of the freedom in the choice of the contractor and fraudulent acts to deduct taxes from the tax authorities.

Investigations would continue for the remaining suspects (there are 9 in total) and for the Milanese vein in 49 million of Carroccio’s electoral funds disappeared that the Genoa Prosecutor is also pursuing. To discuss this, prosecutors will meet with their Ligurian colleagues in Milan in the coming days.

The investigation refers to the 800 thousand euros paid by Flc for Cormano’s office that end up in the pockets of the three accountants, largely in those of Di Rubba and Manzoni, who also use them for buy a villa each on Lake Garda.

Di Rubba would have designed the agreement when the institution was president, between 2014 and 2018. “He was a man of strict confidence in Salvini”, declared in the minutes the former Lombard minister of culture, the League of the Maronian faith Cristina Cappellini, questioned about why the Region chose Rubba and financed the Foundation. “The indication of Di Rubba’s candidacy as the right person in the right place comes from Centemero,” specifies Salvinian, now the League’s treasurer.

Sostegni is left alone with the crumbs of 400 thousand euros that have passed through his hands as liquidator of the property. Arrested while trying to extort 30 of the 50,000 euros that had been promised to the three accountants, he makes extensive statements in prison about his long association with Scillieri. It says that when the League was experiencing financial difficulties at the end of 2014, They thought to entrust the Carroccio with the sale of the headquarters in via Bellerio in Milan to Scillieri. “There was a rush to conclude the operation because (…) there was a risk of being kidnapped by the Genoa Prosecutor.” There was also an inspection with the representative of a supermarket chain, but soon after Salvini declared that the headquarters would never be sold. He also says that Scillieri also took over one Ayrton Senna’s villa in Nice worth 100 million euros to sell to a Russian magician.