The former Covid emergency commissioner is being investigated for embezzlement as part of the investigation into the maxi supply of 1.25 billion euros of masks in which, among others, the journalist is also involved Mario Benotti.
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The name of Domenico Arcuri he had already been registered in the register of suspects in relation to the accusation of corruption. The same accusation contested against Arcuri’s collaborator, Antonio Fabbrocini.
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However, the Piazzale Clodio prosecutor had already asked for their position to be archived. Now, however, according to reports from the newspaper La Verità, while waiting for the investigating judge Paolo Andrea Taviano to express himself on the request for filing, prosecutors Fabrizio Tucci and Gennaro Varone also contest a new crime, embezzlement, or the embezzlement committed by a public official.
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The story emerges from the request for rogatory sent by the prosecutors in San Marino last February 2, and integrated with further documents about a month later. Those documents summarize the same story that last February led the financial police to seize about 70 million euros from the eight people under investigation, for various reasons, for the crimes of trafficking in illicit influences (aggravated by the transnational crime) receiving stolen goods, recycling and self-recycling.
The accusation of trafficking in influences is instead disputed to Benotti, the Milanese engineer Andrea Tommasi, to his partner, the San Marino banker Daniele Guidi e al trader dell’Ecuador Jeorge solis.
Analyzing the emails of the latter under investigation, the investigation took a road that leads to San Marino: the prosecutor is in fact hunting for the money relating to the credit lines made by the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency in favor of three Chinese consortia for the acquisition of over 800 million personal protective equipment mediated by some Italian companies: Sunsky srl of Milan, Partecipazioni spa, Microproducts It srl and Guernica srl of Rome. A handsomely remunerated brokerage business.
And from Solis’s e-mail box it would appear that part of the commissions would have been destined for the Daniele group. Hence the request of the public prosecutor of Rome in San Marino from which Arcuri’s involvement would emerge.
Arcuri: “I have no news about it”
“We didn’t know anything”, explains the former commissioner’s lawyer, Grace Flight. Then the note: “Regarding what was reported this morning by the newspaper” La Verità “, about the investigation into the” masks “, the CEO of Invitalia Domenico Arcuri announces that he has no news of what was reported by the aforementioned newspaper. Arcuri, as well as the structure already in charge of managing the emergency, will continue, as from the beginning of the investigation, to collaborate with the investigating authorities and to provide them with any information useful for carrying out the investigations “.
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