Lega, the detained accountant paid 160 thousand euros in cash to Salvini’s party

More than 160 thousand euros in cash. To be precise they are 160,520. All ended between October 2019 and June 2020 on the accounts of the League of Matteo salvini and in the accounts of the territorial divisions of the party in Calabria, Campania and Lazio. Who paid those sums? Andrea Manzoni, one of three accountants close to Carroccio arrested last week for dealing with the shed sold to Lombardy Film Commission. For the Milan prosecutor, the maturing between 2017 and 2018 was a sale to inflated price. But now at the party Alberto da Giussano the shadows and the lines of investigation multiply. Also thanks to the reports of the credit institutions and Anti-Money Laundering.

The latest research clue says so morning, the new newspaper on the newsstands for a couple of days. Citing the documents of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Bank of Italy, which is the anti-money laundering authority, the newspaper reconstructs the cash payments made by the accountant at a branch of the Roman branch of a bank. Manzoni, in fact, deposits wads of bills in the accounts of the League: on October 9, 2019 he pays 10 thousand euros, November 6 19 thousand, another 22 thousand on December 3. Then in January the figures increase: on the 15th of that month he goes to the bank to pay 29 thousand euros, again in cash, on February 12 the payment is 42 thousand euros. So the lockdown blocks transfers that resume in June. Then, on July 15, the Guardia di Finanza stopped Luca Sostegni shortly before fleeing to Brazil: the investigation into the Cormano warehouse is made public, as the suspect status of Manzoni, Alberto di Rubba me Michele Scillieri. Transfers stop.

For the fight against money laundering, these payments “they are not all justifiedIn fact, the FIU also hypothesizes “a serious mix of illicit funds and association finances,” which is the League by Premier Salvini, the new sovereign party created to send the old Carroccio to the loft by the independence from Padania. It is to the new Lega to which Manzoni pays that money in cash, the same Lega that – as he discovered ilfattoquotidiano.it – had been domiciled in via Private of the Stars 1, a Milan, in Scillieri’s studio. This is where Manzoni did his practice as an accountant. Andrea is there! It’s not Alberto … Alberto is less in general … but it’s Andrea! Andrea who is a bastard just … no, Alberto has always been pretty good, “said Scillieri referring to the former student, in the same interception reported by fattoquotidiano.it in which he admitted:” I’m thinking that they did the smart work there later, do you remember , in Cormano, who invented that it cost double … those dirty things over there ”. Cormano is the city north of Milan where the warehouse was sold to Lombardy Film Commission, then chaired by Di Rubba, for 800 thousand euros. “I learned from Di Rubba about the financing provided by the Region in favor of” the Foundation “for the purchase of a property” on the occasion of “some visits to the Lega headquarters in Milan in via Bellerio”, Manzoni put in the minutes before pm before being arrested. Raising his fellow student, who with him is the auditor of the Lega groups in the Senate and in the House.

The other partner of the Bergamo accountants and Jules Centemero, treasurer and deputy of the League who elected Manzoni and Di Rubba to manage the party treasury in a troubled period. “Centemero and Manzoni are the subject of a request for collaboration from the Genoa prosecutor,” writes the Anti-money laundering. Prosecutors in Liguria are the ones investigating the recycling of 48.9 million euros The result of a fraud against the State organized by Umberto Bossi and Francesco Belsito. The crime was prescribed but the judges decided that that money should be returned: only that in 2018 Carroccio’s accounts were no longer there. The Genoa prosecutor assumes that the money was dispersed in a thousand streams precisely to prevent the kidnapping. Salvini and his team deny it, but under the lens of the fight against money laundering he ended a series of cash flows often directed at Di Rubba and Manzoni. Owners of various companies who sometimes work for Carroccio, made about a million in three years. “Some of these companies – observes Anti-Money Laundering – appear as mere through, making the effectiveness of the services rendered doubtful. “However, in addition to the companies, Manzoni also received money from the Lega on a personal level: 160 thousand euros through 31 transfers in two years, always with the same reason “Invoice balance”. Interestingly, it is the same amount that the accountant paid in cash to the party until last June.