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After the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, the then CEO of Highways for Italy, Giovanni castellucci, he has “tried by all means to rebuild good relations with the state“And then try to save the rich state grant for the Benetton family business. The background emerges from the research papers Genoa prosecutor which led to the arrest of the former number one Aspi. The investigation refers to sound absorbing barriers installed on the motorway network, but it arises from a branch of the investigation into the collapse of the Genoese viaduct. After the massacre of August 14, 2018, the 5 star movement – at that time in government together with the League – start asking revocation of the concession to the holding company of Benetton. A petition that begins to create the first rift in relations with the Northern League ally. But let’s go in order.
Toti: “I’ll talk to Giorgetti and Salvini” – “From listening to some intercepted conversations it is clear that after the Morandi bridge disaster, Castellucci tried by all means to rebuild good relations with the State (which is the grantor and that revocation of the concession was sent to Aspi) offering, conditionally large sums of money“Writes the examining magistrate Paola Faggioni on the order of over a hundred pages that led to the former senior manager of Atlantia. What does the judge mean by “large sums of money “? “In this context, some conversations arise from which Castellucci is willing to offer a financial assistance For him Banca Carige rescue to reestablish good relations with the Government. “In those days, in fact, the historian savings bank of Genoa and Imperia He begins to go through a time of serious difficulty that will culminate with the commissioner in January 2019. It is October 30, 2018, two and a half months after the bridge collapse, when Giovanni toti call Castellucci. There Guardia di Finanza intercepts them, but the first part of the phone call reported on the papers by the judge is omissata. “Listen Gianni, I have already spoken extensively with Modiano about things he proposed you about CarigeSays the governor of Liguria, referring to Pietro Modiano, appointed president of the Bank a month before and today commissioner of the credit institution. “How to say that it is obvious that we do we would greet you with great favor, I do not know what effect can I have with GiorgettiToti continues, giving the name of the number two of the Carroccio, at that time undersecretary of the presidency of the council. “Obviously – continues the President of Liguria – once he tells me that there is availability I I talk to Giorgetti and Salvini huh, tell him it’s one thing of course agreed, evidently poll (survey, note the judge in parentheses) “. Castellucci puts his hands out:” The problem is that I sell it to my shareholders I need it to be within a frame“Toti feels on the go:”Eh i know well“. “You get it … huh, huh, huhResponds the former CEO of Autostrade. “But you are, you are talking to the people you say that painting is not part of it… ”, Toti comments.
“I can be an ambassador and all moral persuasion“- Obviously the president of the Region is very interested in this savings phase Carry. And in fact immediately afterwards he proposes: “The only thing we can do is ask the leagueand we say guys we we are exposing ourselves to save you a bank me get rid of the broken balls …so If you don’t take it into account, you’re crazy! “. The former Berlusconi, however, knows that at that moment the strong majority shareholder is the 5 star movement. And then he puts his hands on: “Then I commitments with this government I don’t feel like doing it“. Castellucci does not need Toti to commit:” You you can only do the ambassador in quotes“. Toti agrees:” I can be an ambassador and all moral persuasion of the case… the moment a declaration of interest comes out from you, in my opinion you can agree with Modiano when he says under certain conditions, eh it could be one thing eh, then it is complicated for them too, now there are many things What are you doing in summary, then for me it is a pressure that can still be useful“. The president explains to Castellucci that he helps Modiano.”it’s not a giant thing, because I think about one hundred and fifty million“. The CEO of Aspi, however, does nothing for nothing. And he responds:” The problem is that I have to tell my parents I need something else … obviously“But, how does the government promise not to revoke the concession in exchange for rescuing the Carige? informal statement .. auspicious in short ”, then Toti draws.
“Salvini tells Di Maio: either you put the money or you make the Benettons put it” – For the judge “the content of this conversation emerges Castellucci availability to use the Atlantia money to help ‘save’ Carige, but that this initiative should be included in a ‘framework’, from refer to the relations between the group and the concessionary State (and in particular to guarantee to keep the license so much so that Castellucci talks about shareholders). President Toti strives not to miss the opportunity being careful not to make promises“. A reconstruction that the magistrate also makes thanks to another interception. In fact, just before Toti called Castellucci, the general director of Atlantia receives a phone call directly from Modiano.” Hello Giovanni! Listen … we continue on this track“Says the president of Carige. “We have seen Garavaglia and we explain it to him ”. Garavaglia is a member of the League, who at that time held the position of undersecretary of Economy: it is to him, Modiano maintains, the president of Carige turned to tell about the hypothetical rescue of Atlantia. “Obviously he finds it very positive. He talked about it with Salvini who spoke it with Di Maio to say: friends … or put the public money or let the Benettons put the money“. Here too Castellucci does not waste a second in putting his hands on:”With the annexes and connected?“” That’s right … er with attachments and connected. But at this point he … the Garavaglia is on the slopes of Di Maio .. put it this way“, Is Modiano’s response. At this point, Castellucci has a proposal for the president of Carige: “But why don’t you tell him a Garavaglia if you contact me first so we do a turning the horizon … on the feasible and the unfeasible“.” It would not be bad at all, “replies the banker. The whole operation, of course, is aimed at one do ut des: Atalantia saves Carige bank and the government does not affect highway concessions. “As can also be seen in the telephone call with Modiano – explains the judge – it follows that the availability shown by Castellucci financial aid for Carige’s rescue is by no means unconditional, so much so as to refer to attached and connected that’s obviously the promises that he tries to extort money about the concession “.
How Toti and Salvini thought about the revocation of the concession – It is not known whether Garavaglia, the Northern League that at that time was undersecretary of the Economy, knew Castellucci or not. How is it not known if Toti really did it?moral persuasion“In favor of Autostrade against Giorgetti and Salvini. Today the governor, who at the time said he was willing to act like “ambassadorFor Castellucci, he claims to have spoken with the former CEO of Atlantia only “to save the savers of Liguria, any intention to obtain support from the government has not found support from me ”. Certainly the president of Liguria He has always been against the revocation of the concession, since the 5 stars began to ask for it: “It is not up to politics to decide who is responsible, it is up to the courts of the Republic to decide who is at fault,” he said. for example on October 15th. 2018, two months after the collapse and 15 days before calling the number one of the family holding company Benetton. A position against the revocation that Toti took a few weeks after the massacre: “I asked the government to It does not happen, I think it does not work in Genoa, Liguria and in the whole country “, were the words that were already pronounced on September 6 two years ago. The same days that Matteo salvini, at that time deputy prime minister, was very lukewarm on the same issue. “Genoa and Italy they do not seek revengeBut they seek justice and a future, ”he argued on September 21. “Revocation of the concession? We await the opinion of lawyers and jurists. Those who make mistakes pay: if leaders make mistakes they have to pay but they don’t have to get out of the way of the workers“He insisted still in July 2019. On the first anniversary of the tragedy, however, he defined”worn out that on a day like this there is still someone talking about Roads, from Benetton. Whoever makes a mistake pays, I am not a judge, an engineer, or a lawyer ”. It was one of Salvini’s last public outings as Minister of the Interior. The alliance with the 5 stars had already been broken and the government would officially fall only a few days later. An ending also caused by the difference in positions on the Autostrade issue.
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