BRUSSELS, JUN 29 - The 'battle' of the former Carige shareholders against the commissioner of the Ligurian bank in 2019 comes to a highly symbolic ruling by the European Court of Justice: the ECB is wrong about denying access to the documents with which Carige is was placed in extraordinary administration (the provision was canceled), and sentenced the European central bank to pay the legal costs of the appeal brought by a small shareholder, Francesca Corneli.
The concrete consequences remain for the most part a matter for the crowd of top-level lawyers in the field, but waiting for other appeals to be decided, starting with the one for damages of 875 million euros requested in May 2021 by the former first shareholder Carige. , the Malacalza family.
Carige, meanwhile, continues the road towards a new reorganization, after leaving the commissioner in just over a year: Bper is waiting for the Consob go-ahead to the offer document for the purchase of the 'Ligurian bank', with a suspension of the investigation which should now be in its final stages.
