"I'm not worried for the simple reason that there are no reasons for it."
Matteo Salvini
replied
to the journalists who asked Ariano Irpino (Avellino) to comment on the judicial investigation
in which some accountants believed to be close to the League were involved by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office.
Salvini's comment on the position in favor of
No to the referendum taken by Giancarlo Giorgetti
is
identical
("Vote Yes is a favor to the government"): "Worried? Let's not joke" said the leader of the League before leaving Ariano Irpino to reach Matera.
Investigation, Salvini at dinner with Manzoni in Rome
A dinner at the end of last May in Rome between Matteo Salvini, the vice president of the Senate Roberto Calderoli, the senator Stefano Borghesi and Andrea Manzoni, auditor in the Chamber for the League and arrested two days ago in the Milanese investigation into the Lombardy Film Commission case.
The detail, as 'la Repubblica' and 'il Fatto Quotidiano' write today, emerges from a report from the Gdf in the proceedings of the investigations.
At that time Manzoni and Alberto Di Rubba, administrative director for the Carroccio in the Senate and also arrested, were concerned about the dismissal of Marco Ghilardi, at the time director of the Seriate (Bergamo) branch of the Ubi bank, for some suspicious transactions on accounts opened by the two accountants in the credit institution.
As it emerged, among other things, according to a testimony by Ghilardi himself, the two had asked him to open "accounts" in the name of the "regional associations" of the Carroccio, that is, territorial divisions of the party.
Operation that did not go through.
In one of the interrogations made, as reported by 'Corriere della Sera', Luca Sostegni, alleged figurehead of professionals and who is collaborating with the prosecutors after ending up in prison in July, said that Michele Scillieri, another trusted accountant of the League arrested, he would have told him "smiling" that the money from the deal on the property for the LFC would have been used for the elections of March 2018. On this point, however, the investigators at the moment have not found any confirmation in the investigations which, however, have also been following for some time. the track of the 'black funds' and are intertwined with the Genoese ones on the recycling of the 49 million euros of the League of which traces have been lost.
The clarification of the PM, dinner not recorded by investigators
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"In relation to some articles that appeared in today's newspapers, concerning a meeting in which parliamentarians would also take part, the Milan Public Prosecutor specified that, during that meeting, no computer detector was active".
The prosecutor Francesco Greco specifies with a note
Giorgetti, trust in accountants
"Knowing them, I trust them and therefore I trust justice".
This was stated by the deputy secretary of the League, Giancarlo Giorgetti, today in Cividale del Friuli (Udine), regarding the judicial investigation of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office in which some accountants believed to be close to the League are involved.