Corruption in Liguria, Spinelli: “I said everything, everything…”
Warranty interrogation of the port entrepreneur concluded “I said everything, everything…’ Thus Aldo Spinelli at the end of the warrant interrogation before the investigating judge Paola Faggioni confirmed that he had answered the investigators’ questions.
Corruption in Liguria, the Prosecutor’s Office opens the file for alleged fraud on the masks against Toti
Investigating the vote exchange between the Riesi and Calabrian communities and President Giovanni’s list Allinvestigators also discovered a maxi fraud of one million and 200 thousand euros on healthcare supplies during Covid. In particular masks, unobtainable in the midst of the pandemic and as precious as gold in phase two for schools and public places. This is what emerges from the papers filed as part of the investigation that led the President of the Region to house arrest.
“Investigations have been carried out – the financial police officers write in the information – against acriminal association, promoted and headed by Yuri Fergemberger and Edoardo Boldrini and made up of various associates and associates, who, taking advantage of the health emergency resulting from the spread of Covid-19, carried out multiple conducts of illicit marketing of health products, in defiance even of elementary standards of protection of health and with the exclusive perspective of maximizing one’s illicit profits”. The point of reference for becoming suppliers of schools and therefore of the Region had to be Domenico Cianci, administrator of dozens of condominiums in Rapallo and king of preferences in the 2020 regional elections. during wiretaps, two people, not under investigation, can be heard explaining: “Cianci ok? (…) and with Cianci if we got to Toti, for the masks, given that we also have children’s masks, now… it would be… it would be a great coup, eh?”, “because now they’re looking for them so scary”. And the other interlocutor: “but for the schools, you say?”. And on the other hand he confirms it: “because there we talk about millions of pieces… given that he wants a hand… one hand washes the other and both wash the face…”.
Toti, Spinelli’s son, is arrested in front of the judge: “I answered the questions”. Cozzani instead chooses silence
“I answered the judge’s questions. What I said? I can’t tell you anything.” Roberto Spinelli, son of Aldo, the port entrepreneur considered by the Prosecutor’s Office to be the great corruptor in the new Genoese tangentopolis, leaves the courtroom after an hour of “conversation” with the investigating judge Paola Faggioni. Accompanied by his lawyer Andrea Vernazza, he is the first suspect, banned, to answer the magistrate’s questions, although the short time spent in the courtroom suggests that the topics under investigation were not touched upon in depth.
While in Genoa Spinelli junior responded to the investigating judge, in La Spezia Matteo Cozzani, Toti’s head of cabinet and as his president under house arrest, he decided to make use of the right not to respond, same strategy adopted last Saturday in the Ligurian capital. Cozzani made some spontaneous statements in front of the investigating judge Mario De Bellis. He showed up just before 9am at the Palace of Justice of La Spezia accompanied by the lawyer Massimo Ceresa Gastaldo, entering hearing room number 12. “He is calm and calm in being able to clarify all the charges, which he contests, despite living in a situation not simple. At the moment he is not yet able to answer on the merits – the lawyer Gastaldo told reporters as he left the courthouse – and pointed out that the precautionary needs, from our point of view, do not exist because he does not cover from years in office as mayor of Porto Venere and also because, due to the media outcry surrounding the affair, he will no longer hold the role of head of cabinet”. Shortly before, Matteo Cozzani’s brother, the entrepreneur Filippo Cozzani, he had in turn appeared before the judges together with his lawyer Luca Bicci.
Where then it was the turn of Francesco Moncada, director of Esselunga and husband of Marina Caprotti, who resigned in the past few days after being banned. Also accused of corruption, assisted by the lawyer Paola Severino he decided to make use of the right not to answer.
Liguria investigation, Rixi: “There is the risk of a stop to construction sites”
“The issue is Genoa but the issue is also the entire country. We need to understand if it is only linked to the facts we read, it seems quite worrying to me, in the sense that no company will take on a public contract again, perhaps after having been to an electoral dinner” . He underlines it Edoardo Rixi, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Mobility interviewed on 24 Mattino on Radio 24.”What happens is that works are done to ingratiate oneself with an entrepreneur who gives you 70 thousand euros, we are at the beginning of a ‘cinema’ that will last years and which risks blocking all the construction sites”, notes Rixi.
For Rixi there is also “a problem of method: the first thing that emerges clearly, regardless of how one thinks, is that the current law on party financing is not good and must be rewritten immediately, the public contribution must return or there must be some form of protection. the topic. Even things that perhaps in themselves would not have problems, in turn risk being spoiled, so there could be a chain effect not only on the port but on many contracts, also on the Alessandria port for Piedmont for example or other” , concludes Rixi.