While the names of some of the other entrepreneurs investigated for corruption emerge in the investigation by the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office for which the governor Giovanni Toti is under house arrest, the hypothesis of illicit financing of parties is also clearly outlined, currently contested by Francesco Moncada , the member of the board of directors of Esselunga and recipient of a disqualification measure for corruption, and to Maurizio Rossi, the publisher of the Primocanale newspaper, searched three days ago.
These are some of the new details of the investigation that is shaking the world of politics and which has led, in addition to Toti, to his head of Cabinet, Matteo Cozzani, under house arrest, answering for electoral corruption with the aggravating circumstance of mafia facilitation , and the entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli. Paolo Emilio Signorini, the former president of the Port Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, ended up in prison and, according to the reconstruction of the prosecutors led by Nicola Piacente, he was bribed with around 500 thousand euros in cash, benefits and other benefits. , including 22 stays in Monte Carlo with evenings at the Casino, including chips, as can also be seen from the letters rogatory sent by the investigators. And the former number one of the port of Genoa who later became CEO of Iren was the first to face the guarantee interrogation in front of the investigating judge Paola Faggioni, however making use of the right not to answer the questions. He reserved the right to do so later, only after analyzing the amount of documentation collected by the Genoese magistrates.
“The papers are such that they require careful reading. – explains Enrico Scopesi, defender together with Grazia Volo – Signorini is quite well, beyond the situation he has his peace of mind. I trust that the problem of imprisonment can be resolved. Because the priority now it’s about getting him out of Marassi.” While we wait for Toti’s interrogation in the next few hours, under house arrest in his home in Ameglia where he lives with his wife (for him there is a “current and concrete danger of evidential pollution”), the public prosecutors and the Gdf are preparing to study the material seized in recent days, with the aim of shedding further light on a system of business, politics and alleged bribes which involves not only the port, but also the waste system, major works and could even touch upon, they do not exclude the investigators, healthcare. Among the next moves of the investigators, there is also the possibility of hearing the mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci as a person informed on the facts, both on the concessions of the port terminals and on those relating to large-scale retail trade.
Among the various entrepreneurs who would have given “a hand” by financing Change, and the Giovanni Toti Committee, there is Pietro Colucci, an entrepreneur from Campania in 2021 operating in the province of Savona in the sector of the disposal of non-hazardous special waste, with recovery of materials and of electricity from biogas. It was in that year that the Genoa prosecutor’s office investigated him for illicit financing of parties (in particular the political formation of the president) in a separate file which is still open. And now, as can be seen from judge’s provision, Faggioni is also accused of corruption: between 2016 and 2020, through his companies, he allegedly financed the Governor with 195 thousand euros in exchange for the “issuance of authorizations regarding the management of landfills “. Furthermore, among the various entrepreneurs on whom investigations are underway, there is Luigi Alberto Amico, owner of a ship repair and maintenance company: “the immediate expression of interest in his practice – writes the investigating judge – was followed by the provision of funding in favor of the Toti Committee”.
On 7 June 2021 “a payment of 30 thousand euros” was found in favor of the Toti Committee (“of which 10,000 passed the following week to the ‘dedicated’ account of president Toti), an operation that was reported as suspicious by the Bank of Italy , similarly to what occurred with reference to the financing provided by the Colucci group”. In this context, episodes of illicit financing of parties are also emerging, currently contested, as far as we know, against Moncada and Rossi for the “hidden payment” which the councilor of the large-scale distribution group allegedly ordered “some advertising passages on the panel displayed on the Colombo Terrace” for the municipal election campaign of two years ago, obtaining the unblocking of two procedures for the opening of two supermarkets, one in Savona and the other in Sestri Ponente, a chapter of which little is known, yet to be written.
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