Black lobby: Fidanza and Jonghi Lavarini under investigation

Fdi MEP Carlo Fidanza and Roberto Jonghi Lavarini, also known as the 'black baron', are being investigated for the hypothesis of illicit financing and money laundering in the Milanese investigation resulting from the Fanpage journalistic investigation into the election campaign of the Brothers of Italy. Today the GDF also carried out searches.

    In particular, Fidanza and Jonghi Lavarini, who was a candidate for Fdi in the Chamber in 2018, are being investigated for the two hypotheses of crime disputed in the investigation - coordinated by the adjunct Maurizio Romanelli and by prosecutors Piero Basilone and Giovanni Polizzi - on the basis, a what has been known, of phrases that were uttered by them in the first video of the Fanpage investigation.

    The prosecutors yesterday acquired the full video with the recordings (over 100 hours) of the dialogues between an 'infiltrated' reporter, Jonghi Lavarini (sentenced to two years for apologia for fascism), Fidanza (FDI MEP who meanwhile resigned from all party positions) and the new councilor of the Municipality of Milan, and at the time a candidate of Fdi, the lawyer Chiara Valcepina (who is not currently under investigation). Dialogues from which an alleged "laundry" system has emerged, of which Jonghi Lavarini himself speaks, to clean up money paid in black destined for the electoral campaign and also used for other elections.

    It was the 'black baron', as emerges from the Fanpage video, who introduced Carlo Fidanza to the journalist and the MEP would have explained to him, as shown in the video, that he could contribute to the election campaign by paying into his current account or "if it is more It is convenient to use black "," black ", as Jonghi Lavarini said, there are a" series of washing machines "for financing.

    Phrases that led, in fact, to the registration of the two in the register of suspects and today to a search of the economic-financial police unit of the Gdf of Milan in the house of Jonghi Lavarini. An activity aimed at seeking any evidence, including documents and IT devices, on the alleged 'opaque' financingand on the money laundering mentioned in the Fanpage recordings.

    "I learned from the press that I was registered in the register of suspects following the Fanpage investigation", Fidanza commented.

"At the moment I have not received any official communication. I am calm and obviously at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor to clarify every aspect of this matter as soon as possible".