(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 10 - The Council of Ministers, based on the legislation on Golden power, has decided to cancel the 2018 sale of the military drone company Alpi Aviation to the company Mars Information Technology, based in Hong Kong, attributable to Chinese state.
The news, anticipated by the Reuters website, was confirmed by sources of PalazzoChigi.
Alpi Aviation, a company in the Pordenone area that produces dronimilitaries, aircraft and spacecraft, had ended up at the center of an investigation, conducted by the Guardia di Finanza of Pordenone, for violation of the law on the handling of armament materials and possible violations of the "GoldenPower" discipline. which protects strategic Italian companies.
The news about the investigation had spread in September, when it was also learned that the company, founded by Friulian entrepreneurs, had since 2018 been taken over, through a Hong Kong group, by two important Chinese government companies.
The Guardia di Finanza, which had denounced 3 Italian managers and 3 Chinese managers, in particular contested the fact that the takeover, compared to the original Italian property, had been perfected in such a way as not to bring out the new shareholder, with delays in administrative communications and omitting to inform previously the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the purchase of the majority of the company, thus violating the "Golden Power" which attributes special powers to the Italian authorities on the structure of reality
strategic in various sectors.
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