OfIlaria Sacchettoni
The sentence of the money laundering trial in which the former president of the Chamber Gianfranco Fini and his partner Elisabetta Tulliani are accused. Fini: «I didn’t know who the buyer was. More serene than you might think after 7 years of trial”
Gianfranco Fini was condemned to 2 years and 8 monthshis partner Elisabetta Tulliani and the father Sergio Tulliani to 5 years and Elizabeth’s brother, Giancarlo Tulliani, to 6 years. This one judgment of the judges of Court of Rome to the trial for recycling in the’purchase from the house in Monte Carlo. At the hearing on March 18th, the Capitoline prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 8 years for theformer president from the Room, 9 years For Elisabetta Tulliani, 10 years for his brother Giancarlo Tulliani And 5 years for the father Sergio Tulliani.
«I didn’t know who the buyer was»
«I’m not disappointed. The only point on which the college decided not to completely absolve me is that authorization to sale of the apartment which is quite evident Not was authorized by me“, has commented Fini leaving Piazzale Clodio. “I’m leaving more peaceful than you might think after 7 years Of processes – observed the former president of the Chamber -. I remind myself that, for similar storya complaint against me was archived by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office. I leave more serene than what some might think: certainly 7 years to reach a conclusion like this… It is right to have faith in justiceof course if it were a little more solicitous… After a long time speakafter many controversiesso many accusations, so much denigration from a political point of view… Responsible for what? To have authorized the sale. It’s not clear to me what the crime consists of.” Fini, after the sentence, further clarified: «I didn’t authorize there sale of the house in Monte Carlo to a company that can be traced back to Giancarlo Tulliani. When I gave the ok I did not know who he was the buyer».
The house in Monte Carlo
The history of the apartment on boulevard Princesse Charlotte 14 a Montecarlo It dates back to 2008when Alleanza Nazionale sold to «Printemps Ltd» that loft of approximately fifty square meters left in inheritance by the countess Anna Maria Colleoni. One of the companies was behind the acronym offshore Of Francesco Corallo, the slots entrepreneur who owes the State approximately 85 million euros in taxes. L’purchaseaccording to the Rome Prosecutor’s Office, served to clean up to a small extent that capital and it was the Tulliani family and Gianfranco Fini himself who facilitated the operation. The founder Sergio, Gianfranco and Elisabetta Tulliani ended up on trial for recycling of illicit sums, the same applies to former AN leader and former president of the Chamber Fini.
Now, if Coral he’s out prescribed from the affair (last March 1st), for theformer leader of the National Alliance they had been requested by the Prosecutor’s Office 8 years in prison. Magistrates Giuseppe Prestipino and Barbara Sargenti reconstructed the many turns made by Corallo’s capital, which served to finance the purchase of the apartment and then returned (with a fair capital gain) to the slot king’s coffers through fictitious companies «in order to concretely hinder the identification of the criminal origin, using various current accounts, including foreign ones”.
Fini’s defense: «Unaware»
There defence Of Finish (lawyers Michele Sarno and Francesco Caroleo Grimaldi) had tried to accredit the idea of a substantial unawareness of the former President of the Chamber regarding the origin of the money.
Thesis confirmed but in extremis (only in recent days) by his ex-partner Elisabetta Tulliani: “I have hidden to Gianfranco, father of my daughters, the will of my brother Giancarlo to buy the house in Monte Carlo, the subsequent sale and the fact of having accepted the co-ownership proposed to me by my brother as repayment of a loan I had made to him years before, I was certain that the money for the purchase was my brother’s… ».
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April 30, 2024 (modified April 30, 2024 | 3:22 pm)
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