«Every euro collected was allocated to politics»

“Every euro collected had a political destination: no contribution produced personal enrichment or benefit for me, for others belonging to my party or for private third parties.” Thus the governor Giovanni Toti in the statement delivered to the prosecutors at the end of the interrogation held in the Gdf barracks. «Every donation of money – he added – was credited with traceable methods and reported. Likewise, all expenses incurred have been reported and publicized in terms of the law and beyond. The budgets and reports were (and still are) published on the websites of the political organizations in support of me.” Speaking of the expenses incurred and recorded, Toti in his memoir lists both those «in support of my political activity as leader of the Toti List present in the Regional Council and in many municipal administrations, and to support mayors, lists and candidates connected and consistent with the political line of the Toti list, both with regards to the initiatives of the Government Coalition”. The “budgets and reports were (and still are) published on the websites of the political organizations in support of me.” «Every euro collected – he reiterated – had a political destination: no contribution produced personal enrichment or utility for me, for others belonging to my party or for private third parties. And precisely to dispel every minimum possible suspicion and guarantee maximum transparency and possibility of control, particular attention was paid to separating every economic aspect of my private life from any economic activity linked to politics, so much so that personal current accounts were also separated and used for political activity exclusively dedicated and ‘transparent’ accounts, with crediting and spending instruments tracked, traceable and always rigorously documented”.