The investigating magistrate of Milan Natalia Imarisio, at the request of the prosecutors, closed the investigation in which the Lombard governor Attilio Fontana was under investigation for self-laundering and false “voluntary disclosure” in relation to 5.3 million euros that were deposited in an account in Lugano, shielded in 2015, and in particular on part of the money, 2.5 million, which the investigators believed to be the result of alleged tax evasion.
Fontana, defended by the lawyers Jacopo Pensa and Federico Papa, has always reiterated that the sum regularized 7 years ago was the inheritance of his mother. The defense filed documents from 1997 onwards relating to Swiss accounts.
The filing petition of the prosecutors Paolo Filippini and Carlo Scalas and of the adjunct Maurizio Romanelli had been forwarded to the investigating judge after Switzerland had not responded to a rogatory sent in March last year, despite last September being formally solicited by the Power of attorney.
Fontana has always explained that that sum, regularized 7 years ago, was the hereditary bequest of his mother. And to demonstrate this, in mid-May last year, his defenders also filed bank documents starting from ’97 and relating to Swiss accounts, claiming that there had been no cash payment, but that it was money invested in securities. funds and more, attributable to the mother. Then, the word was passed to the investigating judge who filed the filing today.
The investigation into supply fraud
Meanwhile, the preliminary hearing against Governor Fontana and 4 other people, all accused of fraud in public supplies for the affair of the assignment by Aria spa, is scheduled for 18 March, in front of the GUP of Milan Chiara Valori. , the regional purchasing center, of a supply, later transformed into a donation, of about half a million euros of 75 thousand gowns and other dpi to Dama, the company of the brother-in-law of the Lombard president, Andrea Dini.