Beyond the story of the Cormano warehouse sold to the Lombardy Film Commission at a price deemed inflated to drain 800 thousand euros of public funds, on which the investigators are convinced they have solid evidence, the Milanese investigation on the three accountants of the League, ended up in home, is increasingly moving
in search of alleged 'black funds' of the party
.
To reinforce the hypothesis a series of
new reports from the banking world
, arrived on the table of prosecutors, of suspicious transactions between entrepreneurs and the Carroccio or companies attributable to the movement's trusted accountants.
In the meantime, in front of the investigating judge Giulio Fanales and the prosecutor Stefano Civardi, Alberto Di Rubba, former president of the LFC and administrative director in the Senate for the League, and Andrea Manzoni, auditor in the Chamber, accused of embezzlement and disturbance and close to the Northern League treasurer Giulio Centemero and Matteo Salvini defended themselves.
"No illegal money collected
", was the refrain in their interrogations, in which they tried to dribble questions about "money to the League", remaining within the perimeter of the property case.
And the lawyer Piermaria Corso has announced that he will file an application with the judge to ask for the revocation of the measures.
Di Rubba tried to justify each operation from an accounting point of view.
He explained that the 178 thousand euros paid by the Andromeda company, attributable to Michele Scillieri (another accountant arrested and who chose the line of silence), in favor of the SDC, attributable to Di Rubba and Manzoni, would be the "commission" for the sale of another property owned by a family from Bergamo.
Line that Manzoni had already proposed to the prosecutors at the beginning of September.
He spoke of "
a real estate operation of a piece of land in the upper Seriana Valley, owned by the Testa family
".
He said, in practice, that the money was not part of the 800,000 euros of the inflated sale.
A story, wrote the investigating judge in the order, so "confused as to be radically incomprehensible".
The investigation, coordinated by the adjutant Eugenio Fusco, is also leading the Milanese magistrates, together with those from Genoa who are
investigating the famous 49 million disappeared,
to hunt down the Carroccio's money.
The case of the former director of the Ubi branch in Seriate (Bergamo), Marco Ghilardi, who had not reported suspicious transactions on the accounts of Di Rubba and Manzoni and was fired from the institute, has already emerged.
On this wave in recent weeks, alerts on anomalous movements of the same kind have arrived in the Prosecutor's Office either directly or through the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Gdf and the Bank of Italy's UIF.
