Fondi Lega, witness: “Di Rubba was a man of confidence and was part of Salvini’s entourage.” Nine suspects in total for the shed affair

The investigation into the funds of the League is underway, which has, only for now, its button in the alleged fraud carried out for the sale of the Cormano warehouse bought by Lombardy Film Commission. And the contours of the characters involved and ended up under house arrest are increasingly outlined. One over all, AAlberto Di Rubba, accountant and president of the entity involved in the matter, considered by the representatives of Carroccio, a man directly attributable to the federal secretary, Matteo Salvini. And it is in the words of a witness, the former Lombard Minister of Culture Cristina Cappellini, who is thanked as much as: “He was spoken of as a man of the turning point, for his competence and seriousness. He was a man of close trust in SalviniAlso because it was he who “had to settle the accounts” of the party. Meanwhile, from the documents filed after the arrests and before the interrogations of guarantee, it appears that there are nine suspects in total for embezzlement. In addition to the five a those who applied the precautionary measure, among them the three trusted accountants of the League and the nominee Luca Sostegni, also appear Pierino maffeis, Elio Foiadelli me Vanessa servalli, directors of companies attributable to professionals who ended up under house arrest. And the entrepreneur is also investigated, as it was known Francesco Barachetti. Record arising from the request for a rogatory in Switzerland presented in the investigation documents. In the letter rogatory of August 18, prosecutors also speak of the “Panamanian company that holds an account in Switzerland”, which also ended up at the center of the investigation.

Luca Sostegni’s certificate and account in Switzerland – The investigation file contains the testimony of Luca Sostegni, the man considered the front man of some companies arrested on July 15. Sostegni spoke of an account in Switzerland linked to the Milanese trustee Fidirev in which the 400 thousand euros ended, part of the sale considered ‘inflated’ of the property and on which it actually operated Michele Scillieri. Alberto di Rubba, three accountants linked to Carroccio and the last one also former president of Lfc and administrative director in the Senate, ended up under house arrest last Thursday with Andrea Manzoni. “So this Fidirev is a company that has been presented to me … … which is Scillieri presented to me, that we had to do this Fidirev Swiss account, which is a fiduciary where those 400 thousand euros would have been paid back to that Fidirev, where Scillieri had my signature to operate in the account, and then from there I don’t know where the money went ”. The alleged front man explained to the judge that Scillieri would have paid “50,000 euros a week” into his personal account and I was transferring them to this Fidirev account, but that’s all “.

Money for the election campaign? Sostegni also answered questions about the fate of the money. “When Scillieri spoke of the descent to be used for the league election campaign said it laughingHowever, on the subject he came back with me more than once, and I also made some jokes, although I always thought that the descents were for Di Rubba and Manzoni (…) However, it seems strange to me that in events of this type whoever was above them knew nothing. It was Manzoni – he added – who asked Scillieri to house the headquarters of Salvini’s party in his office. Manzoni, one of the three detained accountants, “confided to me that he had become an important person in the League, along with Di Rubba and that they were friends with Centemero and Salvini.” Sostegni also spoke of another “story”, which also emerges in other acts of the investigation. “It is about Di Rubba and Manzoni – he clarified – and it aims to car rental. The facts are not my direct knowledge, but Scillieri told me ”.

The “car rental company owned by Di Rubba and Manzoni,” he added, “rented cars from the Lega for an approximate turnover of 1,200,000 euros. the figure is disproportionate and also in this case Scillieri I doubted that this large sum of money was really in exchange for the car rental, and I also doubted that it would have remained in the total availability of the two meters ”. Sostegni also reported that “part of the sums paid to Barachetti”, a businessman close to the League accused of embezzlement, “for the renovation works” of the Cormano warehouse (Milan) “were returned to Manzoni and Di Rubba.” And again: “When Scillieri talks about the ‘mental drawers’ and when he says ‘if I talk, hell will come out’ he was also referring to this double decline, that is, to the money that Barachetti ended up in favor of Di Rubba and Manzoni. Scillieri – he continued – certainly knows many things, and if he talks about mental drawers he also mentioned to the famous 49 million in electoral refunds, I do not exclude that I may know something.

Di Rubba’s former regional councilor for Culture: “Salvini’s henchman” – “The name of Di Rubba was circulating as the one who had to settle the accounts of the League, and not only of the Film Commission. He was spoken of as a man of the turning point, for his competence and seriousness. He was a man of close trust in Salvini, was part of his entourage and the charges he later received within the party were a demonstration of these voices ”. This is how the former Lombard Councilor for Culture Cristina Cappellini stated in front of the Milan prosecutors, speaking of the accountant and president of the institution. “The indication of Di Rubba’s candidacy – he added – as the right person in the right place (for the presidency of the Lombardia Film Commission, ed) is derived from Hundredth“, Treasurer and deputy of the League. Meanwhile, the activities of the Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza continue today at the Barachetti service headquarters, owned by businessman Francesco Barachetti under investigation for embezzlement. Company that, according to the records, would have received over the years about 2 million euros from the League. The searches in the company in the center of a new line of investigations, also on supposed “black funds” related to the party, began last Thursday and today the Finance department continues with the activities already started. In the same way, the activities of the financiers also continue in the study of Scillieri, who, according to the figurehead Luca Sostegni who collaborates with the prosecutors, was the “mind” of several operatives.