The request for indictment for the hypothesis of fraud against the INPS – in relation to alleged irregularities in the use of the redundancy fund under Covid exemption – concerns not only Minister Santanchè, but also the partner of the FdI exponent Dimitri Kunz D ‘Asburgo and Paolo Giuseppe Concordia, responsible for the group’s treasuries, while the two companies are Visibilia Editore spa and Visibilia Concessionaria srl. In the investigation, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of Milan Laura Pedio and the prosecutors Maria Giuseppina Gravina and Luigi Luzi, 13 employees of the two companies under investigation are involved, who would have been placed on zero-hour layoffs without knowing it – and therefore continuing to work – causing ‘damage’ of over 126 thousand euros paid by the public body.
The file, the investigations of the Financial Police concern the period between May 2020 and February 2022, arose from the declarations of Federica Bottiglione, former manager of Visibilia Editore, who had recorded the conversations with Kunz and said that she had continued to work when, from March 2020 to November 2021, he was officially on redundancy pay due to the pandemic. A scheme that would have been replicated for six former Editore employees and another six of the Concessionaire. Accusations from which the senator defended herself last July in Parliament. At the end of the investigation, the minister (former administrator of both Visibilia Editore and Concessionaria) and her partner (who had replaced her as CEO of Editore) were investigated for aggravated fraud against the State together with Concordia, responsible for managing the personnel of both the companies – which must answer under law 231 on the administrative responsibility of entities – for having unduly received from the INPS, according to the accusatory hypothesis, sums by way of redundancy payments amounting to 126.4 million euros, equal to over 20 thousand hours in total for the 13 employees.
After Concordia’s interrogation last April 24th in the prosecutor’s office, in front of the leaders of the investigation, today the prosecutor’s office draws its conclusions on the case and leaves the matter to the investigating judge’s office which will be responsible for deciding whether to prosecute or dismiss the suspects. There is the conclusion of the investigation, but not the indictment, however, for the other line of investigation which involves the senator with regard to the accusation of false accounting of Visibilia. On the civil front, the economic events concerning the companies of the former Santanchè galaxy are still being defined.
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