New chapter in the long Divania story. In recent days, a new hearing was held in the trial on the bankruptcy of the company producing sofas and armchairs which went bankrupt in 2011. For Antonio Roma, technical consultant of the Bari Prosecutor’s Office heard by prosecutor Lanfranco Marazia, that bankruptcy was caused by the intense activity in contracts derived starting from 2000. Words that would confirm what the prosecution has reiterated in recent years.
For the prosecution, we recall, the bankruptcy was caused by the subscription of unscrupulous financial instruments of a speculative nature offered by Unicredit, which would have exposed the company to continuous and huge economic losses. Together with Divania, another company, Parco Don Vito, also failed. Both belonged to the entrepreneur Francesco Saverio Parisi, a civil party in the trial, together with the 79 former employees. There are 16 people in the dock, including the bank’s former CEOs Alessandro Profumo and Federico Ghizzoni, accused of deceiving Parisi and causing the bankruptcy of the two companies through speculation to the detriment of the two companies.
The story was told in the book “On my skin. The Divania – Unicredit case”, published at the end of 2015 by Imprimatur and co-written by Parisi and the journalist Giovanni Longo.
Therefore, Divania (of one of the offices, that of Bitonto, the ruins remain near the southern entrance of the city) to be a leader in the sector and export all over the world, to attend important fairs everywhere, found itself in short time to squander his economic assets.
The next hearing of the trial will be held on September 24th in the second section of the Criminal Court.
