Lega, that’s how the detained accountants spoke: “We will carry out a thousand more operations, instead of 50 we will get 70.” In the afternoon: “The real estate offer? I found out during a visit to the Carroccio headquarters “

“We will do a thousand more … next time it will be fine, instead of 50 you will take 70 …”. The examining magistrate of Milan Giulio Fanales mentions this interception dating back to May 19 to describe “habitual“Of the three accountants of the League ended up under house arrest for “illegal conduct.” Alberto Di Rubba, Andrea Manzoni me Michele Scillieri they are accused, along with Fabio Barbarroja, of having organized the “inflated” sale of a building north of Milan by the Lombardy Film Commission (at that time chaired by Di Rubba) with the aim of putting in his pocket the funds that the Lombardy Region had disbursed for that purchase. Money that prosecutors assume would have run out Foreign similar to the thousand streams that could have swallowed part of the 49 million of Carroccio’s public funds disappeared from the radar.

“Two criminal targets” – In the newspapers, the judge writes that “the suspects have proven the rare ability to complete the illegal operation in a hidden way“Masking the members of the group behind only the name of Fabio Barbarroja (who also ended up under house arrest). As legal representative of the Andromeda real estate, Barbarroja “bought” the property in Cormano “and then resold it to double the price”To the Film Commission (a non-profit foundation owned by the Lombard Region and Municipality), but without listing the names of the three accountants. “The suspects – continues the investigating judge – managed to concentrate in a single ‘translational story’ the achievement of two different criminal targets“. Which one?” appropriation of public money“, That is, the funds disbursed by the Lombardy Region to the Foundation for the purchase of the property, and“ il exhaustion, in fraud against the tax authorities, of the assets of the original company ”to which the building belonged.

Scillieri: “We will do a thousand more” – According to the judge, “habitual and the professionalism of today’s suspects, in relation to similar illicit behaviors, “find” their plastic representation in the tenor of the dialogue “between Scillieri and Di Rubba captured on May 19.” We will do a thousand more … next time it will be fine, in instead of 50 you will get 70 … “, says Scillieri to the former president of the Film Commission. The two, says the judge,” agree on the need to overcome the meandering discontent among associates as a consequence of the earnings are lower than expected“Precisely to prevent them from committing” crimes of the same nature, “house arrest has been ordered. The group, in fact,” demonstrated a strong organizational capacity“With” perfect division of tasks “and” operational potential “and is based on” interpersonal ties (based on friends, work and kinship in a broad sense) particularly close and going back in time “with a “bond of mutual solidarity”.

The meeting in via Bellerio – The investigation now shakes the party leaders, since Di Rubba and Manzoni are the professionals from Bergamo whom Jules Centemero, treasurer and parliamentarian of the League, has entrusted the party’s accounts: I am respectively the fiscal auditor of the group in the Senate and administrative director of the Chamber on the recommendation of the treasurer Giulio Centemero. Scillieri, for his part, has a studio in via Privata delle Stelline 1, in Milan, where ilfattoquotidiano.it discovered that the ghost headquarters of the Premier League for Salvini, the new national party created by the former Interior Minister. But there is more, because Andrea Manzoni, in a statement made to prosecutors, reported “that he had learned from Di Rubba about the financing granted by the Region in favor of” the Foundation “for the purchase of a property. When? On the occasion of “some visits to the campus of the League in Milan in via Bellerio “. Written by the magistrate of Milan Giulio Fanales in the order performed yesterday, as part of the investigation coordinated by the deputy Eugenio Fusco and by the prosecutor Stefano Civardi. The group, adds the judge, “benefits from important positions still covered by some of its members in the organization charts of numerous companies and entities, also including matters of private law with public participation “.