The president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, under house arrest since 7 May on charges of corruption, arrived just before 11am at the Guardia di Finanza barracks in Piazza Cavour for questioning with the public prosecutors in charge of the corruption investigation, Federico Manotti and Luca Monteverde. With them also the deputy prosecutor Vittorio Ranieri Miniati. […]
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The president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Totito the home since May 7 on charges of corruptionarrived just before 11 am at the Guardia di Finanza barracks in Piazza Cavour for the interrogation with the prosecutors holders of the corruption investigation, Federico Manotti and Luca Monteverde. With them also the deputy prosecutor Vittorio Ranieri Miniati.
The governor was availed from the right not to respond at the guarantee interrogation in front of the investigating judge Paola Faggioni, but later – through his lawyer Stefano Savi – he had declared himself available to be heard by the deputy prosecutors once they had finished reading the documents filed in support of the request for precautionary measures (eight folders for a total of over nine thousand pages).
Accompanied by his defender, Toti will have to clarify every aspect of an affair that has marked a real earthquake in Ligurian politics. “This story must be read knowing how things have been going for centuries in the port where there have always been great wars between terminal operators competing with each other, then concluded with great peace”, said the lawyer Stefano Savi in an interview given to Corriere della Seraresponding to a question on the accusation of having favored the extension of the Bulk concession which Spinelli he allegedly obtained bribes amounting to 40 thousand euros from Toti, who intervened with the Port Authority. Only after the interrogation will the defense present request for the revocation of house arresta necessary condition for the comparison with his majority which could lead Toti to the choice of resignation.
