Gianni Alemanno, Mondo di Mezzo: 6-year sentence upheld on appeal

“If I win German we all buy it ”. Salvatore buzzi This is how he commented, in 2013, in one of the thousands of phone calls intercepted in the investigation process Middle world, the result of elections they brought Ignazio Marino in the Capitol, after the vote against the then outgoing mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, at the center right altitude. Today the former Capitoline mayor and Minister of Agriculture was sentenced on appeal to 6 years in prison, confirming the first instance ruling arrived on February 25, 2019. Penalty even higher than that requested by the Attorney General, Pietro Catalani, who in the accusation had ceased after 3 years and 6 months in prison for the charge of “corruption for the exercise of the function. “” I am puzzled because this sentence of appeal to convict me denies a decision of the Supreme Court according to which my co-defendants have been found guilty of influence traffic“Said the former mayor:” Right now I am a corrupt without bribery – he continued, before leaving the court – evidently I bribed myself. I proclaim mine innocence as I have from day one. I will appeal to the Supreme Court. “If the Cassation fully confirm the appeal ruling, the former minister could really end up in jail.

Alemanno was accused of corruption and illicit financing. According to the accusation, between 2012 and 2014, through the former general director of Ama Franco Panzironi would have received, through its Nueva Italia Foundation, more than 223 thousand euros between electoral dinners, financing to your association and Cash. A substantial part of the money would arrive in October 2014, two months after the first wave of arrests which took place on December 4. The money, according to the accusation, came from the two main protagonists of the investigation of the former “capital mafia”: Salvatore buzzi, at the head of the universe of cooperatives included under the June 29 brand, and Massimo Carminati, a known right-wing extremist. It should be remembered that the initial mafia aggravating has fallen into Cassation for all the accused against whom it had been challenged.

During the investigation i carabinieri del Ros of Rome, in fact, had reconstructed the illicit donations of money received by Buzzi and Carminati in the current account of the New italy. Sums for a total value of 198,500 euros They arrived in the period from January 4, 2012 to September 3, 2014, while another 25 thousand euros reached the current account of the then electoral agent of Alemanno. Pay these figures the subjects attributable in particular to Buzzi (Casa Comune 2000, Unicop, Eriches 29, cooperativa Formula Sociale, Sarim Immobiliare and Sial Service) but also economic subjects that in some way, according to the researchers, acted in accordance with the flush of cooperatives (Edera by Franco Cancelli for the sum of 60,000 euros, co-op. A Smile and Commitment for the Promotion of Sandro Coltellaci for the sum of 15,000 euros). “The transfers of the foundation were not made by Alemanno, who never made any payment, only Panzironi’s name appears in all the documents (the former general director of Ama ed) ”, Their lawyers replied. Franco Coppi me Pietro pomanti. As for the 10 thousand euros that the Sociale Formula gave, “they were no more than a regular payment by bank transfer in the name of the Nuova Italia Foundation “.

Among the “favors” carried out by Alemanno and his men during the period as mayor of the capital, they figure by the prosecution and still strongly disputed since then mayor, there are interventions for the provision of financing from Rome City Hall to Eur Spa “Intended to allow the payment of credits for economic subjects attributable to Buzzi and Carminati”, pressures in the vertices of Ama for the launch of credits boasted by cooperative of Buzzi and interventions aimed at approving the Budget 2012 and the realization of the budget adjustment, always attentive to the interests of the cooperatives, with special reference to the credits claimed in the expansion of the Roma camp of Castel Romano, in which Carminati – according to the investigation documents – was directly interested.

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