The sentence in the trial linked to the purchase of an apartment in Monte Carlo could arrive today. On March 18, the Rome Prosecutor’s Office requested 8 years of imprisonment for the former president of the Chamber, Gianfranco Fini, and 9 years for his partner Elisabetta Tulliani. Furthermore, 10 years were requested for Giancarlo Tulliani and 5 years for […]
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The verdict in the trial could arrive today linked to the purchase of an apartment in Monte Carlo. On March 18, the Rome Prosecutor’s Office requested 8 years of imprisonment for the former president of the Chamber, Gianfranco Fini, and 9 years for his partner Elisabetta Tulliani. Furthermore, 10 years were requested for Giancarlo Tulliani and 5 years for his father Sergio. The crime of money laundering is still contested. Fini is present in the courtroom. In the last hearing Tulliani made statements that exonerated his ex-partner: “I hid a Gianfranco Fini my brother’s will to buy the house in Monte Carlo. I never told Fini the origin of that money which I was convinced was my brother’s. Behavior unscrupulous of my brother represents one of the greatest disappointments of my life. I hope that with this statement I have provided an element to get to the truth” he said. After the defenders’ replies, the court, chaired by Roberta Palmisano, should retreat to the council chamber.
The Monte Carlo case – The story is well known and concerns the sale of an apartment in Principality of Monacobequeathed by the countess Annamaria Colleoni to National Alliance, Fini’s party at the time. That house on the boulevard Princess Charlotte 14according to prosecutors, was purchased by Giancarlo Tulliani with money from the betting company belonging to Francesco CoralloThe king of slots. Initially the procedure also involved other people, including himself Coral and the former parliamentarian Amedeo Laboccetta. Originally the prosecutors had contested the crimes of criminal association for the purpose of embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion. In the last hearing, however, the judges of the fourth section of the Court of Rome had declared the statute of limitations for the charge of criminal association, having excluded the aggravating circumstance of transnationality.
The Corallo-Fini-Tulliani axis – According to the initial accusatory structure of the prosecutors of the DDA of Rome, the members of the criminal association carried out, evading the taxesThe recycling of hundreds of millions of euros. That river of money, once cleaned, was used by Corallo for economic and financial activities but also, according to the investigators, in real estate transactions which involved members of the Tulliani family. Fini’s involvement in the investigation is linked precisely to his own relationship with Corallo. A report, for the prosecutor’s office, which would be the basis of the heritage of the Tullians. The latter, according to what was claimed by the investigators, received them in their own bank accounts huge sums of money attributable to Corallo and intended for the entrepreneur’s economic-financial operations in Italy, Holland, the Netherlands Antilles and the Principality of Monaco.
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