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Numerous regional councilors of the League have been investigated for the so-called “crazy expenses”, private purchases made with money allocated by the Regions to the political activities of the Groups. One investigation refers to the alleged Russian financing of the League in the Savoini case, another where the 49 million from the electoral funds scam ended, others question prominent figures such as the former undersecretary Armando Siri. The investigations that emerged during the pandemic into the supply of gowns and serological tests to the Lombardy region are currently in full swing, mainly involving the governor of the Northern League, Attilio Fontana.
Salvini investigated in the case of migrant boats
Matteo Salvini is under investigation for kidnapping as part of the investigation into the 131 migrants who in July 2019 were detained for days aboard the Gregoretti boat. The leader of the League had been registered in the suspect register of the Agrigento Prosecutor’s Office for the crimes of kidnapping and omission of official documents.
Another accusation refers to the story of the 164 migrants rescued from the ship on August 1, 2019 “The open arms“, which the then Minister of the Interior prohibited from entering Italian waters in application of the provisions of the bis security decree.
In January a year ago, the Catania court of ministers had requested authorization to proceed against Matteo Salvini for the crime of kidnapping in the case of the Diciotti ship. The motivations of the judges: “He abused his powers, violating international conventions and depriving the 174 migrants forced on board of their freedom.”
Russiagate and the Savoini case
One of the loudest media inquiries involving the Lega world is that of the Milan prosecutor’s office at the so-called “Russia gate.” In this case, Gianluca Savoini, former spokesperson for Salvini and president of the Lombardy-Russia association, is being investigated for international corruption in the matter related to the alleged Russian funds that would have been processed on October 18, 2018 at the Metropol hotel in Moscow .
Salvini investigated for 35 state flights
There are 35 suspicious trips for which former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is being investigated. The crime contested by Roman prosecutors is abuse of power. Those trips had already ended up in the sights of the Court of Auditors, which, although it rejected them for not having tax damages, considered them illegitimate and for that reason transmitted them to the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office. Now, from piazzale Clodio, the papers have been sent to the court of ministers.
The Court of Auditors became interested in the matter after the Republic’s investigation into the combinations of many of Salvini’s institutional appointments in Italy with rallies and other party events in the same area. Trips made on board aircraft supplied to the police or fire department. The use of these aircraft was considered illegitimate by the accounting judges because the means of the police and firefighters are reserved for the performance of institutional or training tasks and not for so-called state flights, for which there is other legislation in force.
The investigation into the 49 million scam
Investigations by the Judiciary continue to verify where the 49 million electoral contributions ended up in the League’s coffers after a scam that occurred at the time of the League’s management by Bossi and Belsito. This story unfolds in two stages: the first concerns the actual scam involving the founder and former treasurer who brought the money into the League’s coffers.
The second, which takes place during the management of the party by Maroni and Salvini, has as its object where those 49 million have gone: this second file is still open with the recycling hypothesis (the first investigated is the Lombard councilor Stefano Bruno Galli) . Meanwhile, the Lega has entered into an agreement with the State that provides for a payment deferral to 76 years, with installments of 600 thousand euros.
Lombardy Film Commission Fund Investigation
Four people are under house arrest for being involved in the investigation into the funds of the Lombardia Film Commission, a company in the Region that deals with film promotion. The ordinance refers Michele Scillieri, Alberto Di Rubba, Andrea Manzoni, counters considered close to the League, and Fabio Barbarossa, under investigation for various reasons for embezzlement, alteration of freedom in the choice of contractor and fraudulent theft of tax payments. Luca Sostegni, considered Scillieri’s right-hand man, was arrested for the same incident in July.
The investigation focused on the purchase of a warehouse in Cormano (inland in Milan) at a price inflated by the Lombardia Film Commission, with a surplus of 400 thousand euros compared to its initial value. The property was owned by a company in liquidation, Paloschi Srl, whose director was Barbarroja. Sostegni was the intermediary in the operation, while the accountants close to the League ‘designed’, according to the hypotheses of the investigation. Manzoni had been appointed chairman of the Lombardy Film Commission at the time.
Lombardy region / 1: survey on supply of dresses
The Lombard Governor Attilio fontana He is under investigation in the case of the supply of dresses by the Dama company, in which his brother-in-law Andrea Dini and his wife Rebecca share. In an obvious conflict of interest, Dama would have supplied 75 thousand dresses to the Lombardy Region for 500 thousand euros, during the most critical phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. The objection of the power granted to the governor is for fraud in public supplies.
Fontana must then explain to the magistrates why he tried to pay a sum of money from a bank account in Switzerland in his name. As is known, Fontana tried to recover 250 thousand euros from the Dama company to compensate it for the non-collection of 49,353 dresses and 7 thousand outfits that it had already delivered.
Meanwhile, the governor had asked to suspend the supply, making it a kind of donation. The Unione Fiduciaria di Milano to which Fontana had approached suspended the payment as required by law for the prevention of money laundering.
Lombardy region / 2: survey on the performance of serological tests
The Lombardy region He did not use serological tests in March, at that time he had considered them unreliable. On April 11, it made an exclusive transfer to Diasorin, a spa in Saluggia, in the province of Vercelli, which had signed an exclusive agreement with the San Matteo de Pavia Polyclinic for the research project.
It must be said that Diasorin obtained the CE certification six days after that exclusive assignment, for the supply of 500 thousand tests worth 2 million euros. The price had been 4.5 euros each. The Lombardy Region, urged by the appeal of a competing company, had launched a competition, which was later won by the multinational Roche, which had submitted an offer of 1.5 euros per piece.
Meanwhile, Diasorin had discontinued supply with the delivery in May of 100,020 tests. The prosecutor investigates to verify whether the exclusive assignment to Diasorin constitutes the extremes of the crimes of embezzlement and alteration of the auction. In the suspect register there are eight people: these are the leaders of the company and San Matteo.
The investigation of the senator of the Lega Armando Siri
The former undersecretary Armando Siri: He is under investigation for corruption for an alleged bribe of 30 thousand euros that the businessman would have received Paolo Arata Suspected near the “king of the wind” Vito Nicastri, who, in turn, would be linked to the fugitive mob boss Matteo Messina Money.
Other investigations refer to the granting of some loans to Siri himself, one for ten years of 750 thousand euros granted by a bank in San Marino to the politician without any guarantee, the other of 600 thousand euros always paid by the same institution in San Marino just three months before. thanks to the recommendation of a briefcase from the same senator from the Northern League. They investigate Milan and San Marino.
As soon as he lost the San Marino loan, Siri used 585,000 euros to buy a building of about 1,000 square meters in Bresso, on the outskirts of Milan, but in the name of his daughter. A property that curiously, despite the mortgage, was not mortgaged by the bank to guarantee the repayment of the loan.
Investigation of the treasurer Giulio Centemero
The treasurer Jules Centemero is under investigation for illegal financing in Rome and Milan. We investigated the 250,000 euros paid by Luca Parnasi to the Northern League association “Più Voci” close to the League. The 250 thousand euros for “Radio Padania” and the party newspaper.
It was the “Parnasi method” that the manufacturer himself described to the magistrates and carabinieri of the investigative unit during their interrogations: “I paid for politics. He felt so close to the Lega Parnasi that he proposed, after the elections of March 4, as an intermediary with the Five Star Movement.
There are many conversations in which Parnasi refers to his relationship with “Matteo” (Salvini) and “Giancarlo” (Giorgetti).
