The interrogation of 62-year-old Luca Sostegni , the alleged figurehead arrested Wednesday evening in the investigation by the Milan prosecutor on an alleged inflated purchase and sale for a property in Cormano, in Milan, lasted two hours, in the Milanese prison of San Vittore , for the Lombardia Film Commission. Investigation that also investigates three accountants, including Michele Scillieri, close to the League.
Sostegni, defended by the lawyer Daniela Pulito, is under investigation for fraudulent embezzlement of tax payments, embezzlement and extortion, because he would have threatened Scillieri and the other two professionals, Alberto Di Rubba and Andrea Manzoni, former auditors of the League, to reveal to the press the details of this and other operations. Sostegni, questioned by the magistrate of Milan Giulio Fanales, asked for his silence 50 thousand euros and would have obtained at least 25 thousand, in addition to the promise of 1000 euros every 20 days.
He was arrested, according to prosecutors, while he was running away to Brazil. The interrogation also includes the prosecutor Stefano Civardi who with the adjunct Eugenio Fusco asked for the measure of custody in prison for Sostegni. Meanwhile, the Gdf investigates the network of companies managed by Scillieri, which moved Sostegni like a "pawn", and the final beneficiaries of the 800 thousand euros that came out of the coffers of the Lombardia Film Commission, a regional subsidiary, and other operations on which there are suspicions.
In the next few hours, the investigating magistrate Fanales will have to decide on the validation of the detention and on pre-trial detention in prison, requested by the Public Prosecutor for the danger of escape, reiteration of the crime and probative pollution.