Bologna, 5 April 2024 – Bank transfers from a few tens of eurosothers from different thousands; a pay TV subscription in the child’s name, insurance for them instead; and the subsequent attempt to muddy the waters by making ‘bridge’ transfers, to accounts in the names of others, but then the money, according to the accusation, always ended up in their pockets. The two were thus sent to trial for embezzlement and self-laundering alleged “disloyal employees” of Gianluca Vacchi, well-known entrepreneur and influencer.
Yesterday the judges of the Tempio Pausania court (Sassari) accepted the prosecutor’s request to send the couple to trial, he is fifty-two years old from the province of Olbia and she is 53 years old, originally from the province of Oristano. The two were Vacchi’s domestic collaborators, employed by him first in the villa in Porto Cervo and then in his residence in Castenaso, for over ten years. The couple was in charge of managing the two homes, but also of the Vacchi family’s travels and, more generally, they had the functions of housekeeper and butler. According to the accusations, however, taking advantage of this working relationship and the trust that the influencer gave her, the couple appropriated almost one million euros between 2015 and 2020 (to be precise, 911,200).
Vacchi, represented by the lawyer Gino Bottiglioni, filed a complaint towards the two employees in April 2021. There he traces their long collaboration, which he believed was based on “their honesty and professional correctness”, as well as on the “most complete mutual trust”. The two, as mentioned, initially hired as caretakers of the villa in Sardinia they then moved to that of Castenaso, with fixed salary, food, accommodation and professional expenses included. After a disagreement for work reasons, however, in 2020 they abandoned their jobs, leaving Vacchi “surprised”, who, noticing that the credit cards entrusted to them were used even after the termination of the relationship, had decided to also start checks on the previous activity of employees. Hence the discovery of expenses “in no way attributable to their professional duties”, for a total of almost one million.
The exes Sardinian administrators they strongly deny the allegations, arguing that the disputed banking transactions only served to support their employer’s very expensive lifestyle; version which was in turn rejected by the lawyer Bottiglioni, who in a memorandum underlines how “the defense is in any case unable to justify the rumors of misappropriation indicated”. The entrepreneur filed a civil action; the hearing will begin in September.
