It is the day of the guarantee interrogation for Giovanni Toti, governor of Liguria, under house arrest as part of the Genoa investigation which sees him under investigation on charges of corruption and acts contrary to official duties. And while the front in favor of the resignation of the Ligurian president is widening in the centre-right, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto defends him, seeing in the affair a “little interest in the search for the truth”. According to Crosetto, “with the logic used for Toti” one could also “arrest most of the magistrates”.
The letter rogatory: “Spinelli at the casino has 1.5 million in advance credit”
Meanwhile, new details emerge from the investigation documents. The entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli, under house arrest like Toti, “has been a customer of the Principality’s casino since 1990 and benefits from an advance credit which can reach 1,500,000 euros”, is written in the outcome of the letters rogatory with Monte Carlo initiated by the prosecutors in regarding the benefits and benefits with which – according to the accusations – Paolo Emilio Signorini, former president of the Port Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, the only one among those under investigation to be in prison, was bribed. Furthermore, as stated in the order of investigating judge Paola Faggioni, Signorini “has been a customer of hotels” of a luxury chain “since October 2021, in the order of one to two monthly stays, most of the time in the company” of a friend. Stays which for both “are financially included in the account” of Spinelli, “who, considering the volume of games at the Principality’s casino, benefits from a line of credit”. The former president of the port, however, “is, for his part, unknown as a player at the Principality’s casino”.
