Fondi Lega, the former director of the bank at pm: “Operations without economic reasons never seen before in 30 years of work”

“They are transactions without valid economic reasons that, beyond the amounts, I have not seen in my entire career. And I worked in a bank for almost thirty years ”. So Marco Ghilardi, former director of the Ubi branch in Seriate (Bergamo) who testified before the Milan prosecutors, described some “movements” in the accounts of Taaac, one of the many companies attributable to Alberto Di Rubba me Andrea Manzoni, two of the accountants close to the Lega arrested in the Lombardy Film Commission case. The witness in the July 22 minutes also spoke of “money rounds through ‘Più Voices'”, the association of which the League’s treasurer was the legal representative. Jules Centemeroand the fact that “Di Rubba asked me to open an account for Radio Padania and the regional associations of the League “.

Ghilardi, a longtime friend of Di Rubba, told investigators that the operation to open those accounts, however, did not materialize because it did not look good on the upper floors of the credit institution., since they were accounts in the name of political associations. Ghilardi, who is no longer a director of the Ubi branch in Seriate, received one last May disciplinary dispute by the institute because it had not reported a series of suspicious transactions attributable to the two accountants Di Rubba, also a former president of the Lombardia Film Commission, and Manzoni. The two would also have recommended a lawyer who could follow him in the process and then everything would be concluded. with trial and with dismissal. Di Rubba, among other things, had previously worked in a bank and was an employee of Ghilardi, his friend. And that is why, according to the Milan prosecutor’s office, a meeting with the leaders of the League is being organized in Rome.

And it is also because this type of emergency meeting is successful that the prosecutor Stefano Civardi and the assistant prosecutor Eugenio Fusco have requested the arrest. If for “the reactions to the disciplinary complaints of an obedient branch manager”, that of Ubi di Seriate (Bergamo), Di Rubba and Manzoni “immediately reach the highest levels of politics in Rome on May 26 and 27, then it is easy to imagine the reaction and the probative capacity for contamination of the people so infiltrated in the institutions ”. The “shed” operation, which is the alleged inflated sale of a property for the Lombardia Film Commission, is noted almost “as marginal in the suspicious operation report of May 19, 2020” and “certainly others remain to be explored.” more delicate sectors in which the group of accountants he used his professionalism. In addition, the prosecutors add, that the present matter has generated a fibrillation at the top of politics is demonstrated by the confidential meeting held in Rome to study the defense strategies of the director of the Seriate branch of Banca Ubi ”, in fact Ghilardi.

From the Milanese investigations so far, “complex” corporate structures have emerged, created by Di Rubba and Manzoni, and through which money transfers have also been made to Switzerland. Milanese investigators are also investigating on the basis of suspicious transaction reports from the Bank of Italy FIU on sums arrived at the accounts of companies attributable to Di Rubba and Manzoni at the same bank in Seriate. Accounts from which not only a part of them would come 800 thousand euros of the inflated sale price of the property, but also money from the League with operations of payment for advice in favor of the two professionals. An investigation, that of the Milan Prosecutor’s Office, which for ‘protagonists’ and alleged illicit schemes runs parallel to that of the Genoa prosecutors.