"I find myself accused of having evaded the tax authorities, I find it deeply unfair, something that is a shame for me too, I have no fault".
The TV presenter Simona Ventura defended herself with this spontaneous declaration in the Milanese trial in which she is accused of tax evasion, for facts between 2012 and 2015, for about 500 thousand euros.
"I have never been interested in tax aspects - added before Judge Saba - I never understood a pipe of these things, my mistake was probably to trust the professionals who dealt with these aspects".
"I have been working in the entertainment world for 34 years and I have never been interested in tax aspects", explained the presenter, defended by lawyers Jacopo Pensa and Federico Papa. "I have always delegated to professionals - he continued - and I say this not for download on them, but because I had faith ".
Ventura explained that he always wanted to "pay all taxes" and therefore tried to pay "the previous" with a "grave" assessment, but then realized that "he could not pay everything, because it was very expensive, I did also debts with banks and mortgages "
