Rome, 8 May 2024 – As part of the huge corruption investigation and exchange vote the Genoa Financial Police found and 216 thousand euros in cash seized and other money in foreign currency, not yet quantified, in the search of the home of Aldo Spinellithe entrepreneur who ended up under house arrest yesterday in the investigation which also led to the arrest of the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Totiand the former president of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority, current CEO of Iren, Paolo Emilio Signorini.
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The meetings on Spinelli’s yacht with Toti and Signorini (without cell phones), 220 thousand euros found at the entrepreneur’s home
When the interrogations
Meanwhile the investigating judge of Genoa has set for the interrogation on Friday 10 May of the President of the Region, Liguria Giovanni Toti. Logistics entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli and Toti’s chief of staff will be heard on Saturday. Matteo Cozzani. Already tomorrow at 11am, the interrogation of the former president of the Port Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea and current CEO of Iren, Paolo Emilio Signorini, accused of corruption for the exercise of his function and for acts contrary to official duties. Among the 25 suspects in the maxinvestigation, he is the only one who ended up in prison.
Port System Authority Commissioner under investigation
In addition to the 25 indicated in the order, there are ten other suspects in the investigation, one of these is Paolo Piacenza, from 8 September 2023 extraordinary commissioner of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, accused of abuse of office. The Finance also searched his office and his residence.
The president of Confindustria nautica suspends himself
The president of Confindustria nautica was also investigated, Saverio Cecchiin a note we read: “In relation to the ongoing investigations, beyond the precautionary measure and its effects, until clarity is clarified, President Saverio Cecchi, with the spirit of service that has characterized the more than forty-year activities in favor of the supply chain, decided to suspend himself from office”. Confindustria nautica announces that the activities of the Association and the Genoa International Boat Show “continue without any interruption, under the guidance of the presidential council of Confindustria Nautica and the board of directors of the company I Saloni Nautici srl”.
Defender Toti: “Liguria interests are protected, nothing illegal”
Stefano Savilawyer of the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, met his client: “He is determined to delve deeper into the documents to examine a defense that explains how the facts that are referred to in the documents themselves are to be interpreted differently in light of the policy that he and the Region led by him have always followed, with respect to the protection of public and not private interests”. Toti has been under house arrest for corruption since yesterday intended to protect “territorial interestsalso through forms that could lead to misunderstandings, but which in reality they do not have never strayed into anything illicit.”
