(ANSA) - MILAN, MARCH 10 - The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has closed the investigations, in view of a probable request for trial, for Beppe Grillo and Vincenzo Onorato, owner of the Moby group, accused of trafficking in illicit influences for an alleged "illicit mediation" by the founder of the Five Stars.
In exchange for contracts, between 2018 and 2019, to advertise Moby on his blog, the comedian, according to what had been reconstructed in the investigations, would have forwarded the requests for help made by the shipowner, his longtime friend, to M5S parliamentarians. when his company was in financial crisis.
From the investigations, which had led to searches by the Gdf in January 2022, it had emerged that there would have been at least three fronts at the center of the requests for public interventions that would have been made by Onorato to Grillo, who, in turn, would have forwarded them to parliamentarians of the M5S who had to do with the Ministries of Economic Development and Infrastructure, then led by Luigi Di Maio and then by Stefano Patuanelli and Danilo Toninelli (uninvestigated).
Testifying to the 'journey' and the issues of the requests made by the Neapolitan shipowner to the founder of the Five Stars to keep the group afloat, which had a fleet of over 60 ships, were the chats in the proceedings of the investigation in which Grillo and Onorato ended up under investigation for trafficking in illicit influences regarding an advertising contract for 2018 and 2019 between Moby spa and Beppe Grillo srl for a total of 240 thousand euros.
A high figure, according to the investigations of the prosecutor Cristiana Roveda and the deputy prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli, and not adequate for the services provided.
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