the European Parliament is moving to get reimbursement from the Fratelli d’Italia politician

He is the incumbent MEP that the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, is about to re-nominate at the top of the Fratelli d’Italia lists for the elections of 8-9 Junebut in the meantime the European Parliament itself is moving to have it returned by the Honorable Member Carlo Fidanza the money paid to the young Jacopo Acri as his parliamentary assistant, but that a final Milanese sentence of plea bargaining for Fidanza for the crime of «corruption for the exercise of the function» established that they were in reality a bribe to the father of Acri, Giovanni Francesco: that is, the price to get this politician from the Brothers of Italy to agree in 2021 to resign as councilor of the Municipality of Brescia to leave the seat to the incoming first of the non-elected in 2018 Giangiacomo Caloviniin the context of harsh party dynamics between the territorially aggressive current of Fidanza and the waning one of Daniela Santanchè.

The exchange between resignation and hiring

«Have we understood what Acri wants? — snorted Fidanza in a chat seized by prosecutors —. If you need it to remove it from the wrists… to facilitate the escape I am available to give him an annuity of one thousand euros per month until the end of the legislature, perhaps by signing not him but someone he tells us.” And that’s what then happened in the contract with which Fidanza hired Acri’s then still 17-year-old son (agricultural technical student) as his “local” assistant in Milan, remunerated by the European Parliament with a total of 16,000 euros. A year ago Fidanza (despite saying he did it “reluctantly” and “without this entailing responsibility”), like Calovini (now a member of parliament) had requested and obtained from judge Stefania Donadeo, with the consent of prosecutors Cristiana Roveda and Giovanni Polizzi, Of settle for 1 year and 4 months (suspended sentence), after having compensated 30,000 euros in moral damages to the Municipality of Brescia to avoid becoming a civil party.

Request for documents

And it is precisely a copy of this ruling, final of 22 November 2023, which now the director general for finance of the European Parliament, Didier Klethi, is asking the Milanese judicial officesexplaining that it serves as a prerequisite for «evaluating the opportunity to initiate proceedings for the recovery of undue payments against the deputy Fidanza, in relation to sums received by him as a parliamentary assistance allowance for the hiring of Mr. Jacopo Acri as local parliamentary assistant”.

Acri also pleads

A prospect weighed down by the fact that on Wednesday Acri father also asked judge Tiziana Gueli to plea bargain for 1 year and 4 months, paid the 16,000 euros of the European salaries received by his son as Fidanza’s assistant to the Single Justice Fund of the ministry, and compensated 10,000 euros to the Municipality of Brescia. One defendant remains in the summary procedure, the then deputy regional coordinator of FdI Giuseppe Romelewhose defenders Vieri and Vanni Barzellotti asked for acquittal “for not having committed the crime” invoking an extensive interpretation of the 2023 decision of the Constitutional Court on the messaging correspondence of the parliamentarian Matteo Renzi in the Florentine Open case to request that the chats held with MEP Fidanza were unusable for Romele.

The lawyers also argued that Romele would have been completely unrelated to the consideration possibly underlying Acri’s resignation, and would have only dealt with the “political operation” of Acri’s replacement in the City Council of Brescia, discussed in two meetings in Rome at the headquarters of FdI in via della Scrofa and of which everyone in the party was aware. As Calovini actually confided to his party colleagues in the internal chat called “Vecchia Guardia” and seized at the time by prosecutors: “Giorgia knows everything”.

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