08 January 2024 19:15
The report filed by the Financial Police in the Prosecutor’s Office changed the prosecution perspective from commercial fraud to fraud. A series of emails valorised in the documents acquired in the Antitrust offices were decisive
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The huge Antitrust fine
The Gdf investigators they filed a first note, which will also be followed by a series of annexes, to the deputy prosecutor Eugenio Fusco. An information regarding the pandoro case, an affair that has already led to one huge fine for the entrepreneur and the Cuneo companywhich produced the Christmas dessert “Pink Christmas”, for false advertising regarding charity.
From commercial fraud to fraud crime
The Milanese investigators evaluated the new perspective offered by the Gdf’s annotation which highlights in particular some emails, already acquired by the Competition Authority, which were exchanged to plan the pandoro promotion campaign. For this reason, the crime of fraud was hypothesized and the first entries in the register of suspects arrived.
Investigation into Pandoro and other contracts by Chiara Ferragni
The leaders of the investigation evaluated the issues of alleged illicit profit and damage, in this case to consumers, elements necessary to hypothesize the crime of fraud. In the meantime alcune Procure, who in recent days have opened similar files without any hypothesis of crime or suspects, have contacted the Milanese prosecutors announcing that they will send the documents to the Lombardy capital. Among other things in the Milanese investigation, after the pandoro chapter of Balocco but also of Easter eggs produced by Dolci Preziosi, similar cases will be analyzed in which the sale of the current product with the Ferragni brand was proposed by the influencer with solidarity purposes. Among these there should also be the one relating to Trudi dollwhich has been discussed in recent days.
Ferragni: “I am calm, I have full faith in the judiciary”
“I am calm because I have always acted in good faith and I am sure that this will emerge from the ongoing investigations. I have full faith in the activity of the judiciary and I immediately made myself available with my lawyers to collaborate and clarify every detail of what happened in shortest possible time.” So in a note from Chiara Ferragni after the prosecutor’s registration in the register of suspects. “I am, however, deeply disturbed by the exploitation that part of the media is carrying out, even by spreading news that is objectively untrue”, she added.
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