Amadeus enters the sights of Codacons. The statements of the former agent Lucio Presta they alerted the consumer association which filed a complaint. In the crosshairs, the management of the Arena Suzuki show. According to Presta, the conductor would have asked for extra for the artistic direction, which is prohibited by the rules issued by the Rai Supervision.
Carlo Rienzipresident of Codacons, declared to Adnkronos: “We are not going into the merits of the relationship between Lucio Presta and Amadeus, and we are not interested in the personal and economic issues between the host and his former agent, but Presta’s declarations regarding possible violations of Rai provisions deserve to be investigated in depth to understand, in the interests of the users, whether there have been irregularities, as the manager would have declared”. Presta in fact declared that Amadeus had demanded “that the company pay him the Artistic direction and that he would be granted 100 percent ownership rights to the format.”
The director of Codacons then insists: “In fact, a circular from the Rai Supervision establishes that it is in the specific interest of the concessionaire company avoid artists and hosts may benefit from unjustified positions of advantagedevoid of any market feedback, and that it is not acceptable to make every presenter, perhaps even those who have grown professionally in Rai, a separate format, with the risk that this procedure is actually surreptitiously used to collect greater compensation‘. A circular that commits to providing Rai with suitable tools to verify that external formats do not appear to be a surreptitious means to further increase the salaries of artists, presenters and journalists”.
This is where it comes from the complaint presented to the Rai supervisory commission and the anti-corruption authority: “In light of these provisions and Lucio Presta’s statements we have decided to present a complaint to the same Rai Supervisory Commission and to theAnti-Corruption Authorityso that they verify the truthfulness of the manager’s declarations and ascertain, in the exclusive interest of Rai users, any violations of the existing provisions, adopting the appropriate measures”.
