Genoa, 16 May 2024 – “In Genoa I’ve made, let’s say, a good path… you think I’ve accommodated 5 people… we really are friends of Toti… 5 of which 4 from Riese and 1 lifelong friend… let’s say we’ve sorted them out a bit, they’ve all been called, then if there’s something we’ll talk about it calmly and Let’s try to give you a hand“. I 400 votes of the large Riesina community in Genoa are tempting. And, according to the accusations, the vote was truly an exchange: you mark Toti on the card and the councilors who support him, and in return you will have advantages.
The twins Italo and Arturo Testa
It’s Italian Maurizio Testain an interception, to support, without knowing it, the dei hypothesis pm Federico Manotti and Luca Monteverde. On 25 November 2020 Testa – ended up under compulsory residence in the Municipality of Boltiere together with his twin brother Arturo Angelo (both suspended since Forza Italia) on charges of aggravated electoral corruptioncommissioned in order to facilitate the activity of theCosa Nostra mafia association – he is talking to a friend and describes the system with which he would gain accreditation towards the highest level of Ligurian politics.
Trait d’union it would have been between the two worlds the former mayor of Porto Venere and Toti’s chief of staff, Matteo Cozzani. With the deputy Alessandro Sorte, Cozzani, coordinator of the ‘Let’s change with Toti President’ list, discusses the possibility of candidacy in the regional elections (then faded) of Arturo Angelo Testawhich could have brought an important pool of votes in favor of Toti who, supported by the centre-right, would emerge victorious at the polls.
But Italo Maurizio Testa, heard the other day by the investigating judge Paola Faggioni in the investigation under investigation, showed a letter from the mayoral candidate center-left in 2007, Marta Vincenzi, with which he sought votes in the same community of Sicilian transplants. In the letter, delivered by Testa, the candidate, who later won the elections, also cited “the brilliant idea of a cultural association from Riesini and beyond, started in our city, by a non-Riesino (Venanzio Maurici) is an example to be pursued , in this way we can create formidable forms of sociality and associationism, with little.”
Maurici, former CGIL trade unionist, in the accusatory reconstruction he is another who would have brought water to Toti’s mill. But he denies it, it’s one kinship with the boss Cammarata, that his political affiliation: “I am on the left, the Testa on the right”. But in the mass of papers that the Dda Genoese has filed, there is also the shadow of a mysterious mole who may have known of the existence of the investigation, which started from La Spezia – with the wiretaps concerning Cozzani – and ended in the Ligurian capital.
A man , wearing a sweatshirt and hat, approached the Testas just as the brothers were with some Riese people. That person, identified as Toti’s city councilor Umberto Lo Grasso, warned Italo: “You see they are investigating, don’t name names and don’t talk on the phone… They are investigating”. And the other: “yes, I know, don’t worry… I stutated him (turned off in Sicilian dialect, ed.)”. And so, among the thousand accusations of Liguria-gate, there is also that of revelation of official secrecy.
