It emerges from the report of the 8-hour river interrogation on Thursday. The governor: “I expressly asked for votes for Ilaria Cavo”
May 24, 2024
THE financing by the group linked to the naval entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli to the president of Liguria Giovanni Toti would have started in 2015. It was the same who said it Toti, according to what emerges from the minutes of the 8-hour river interrogation which was held yesterday, Thursday 23 May. Some of that funding has now run out under the magnifying glass of the investigators in the investigation that led to the governor’s house arrest. “The Spinelli group has started supporting my political committees since 2015 and this relationship has lasted until now. I want to point out that it is therefore It is possible that I had asked for financing even before the meeting on September 1, 2021“, Toti told prosecutors who asked him if he had asked for financing from the Genoese terminal operator during lunch on board the latter’s yacht in September 2021.
“I told Spinelli about problems solved on stranded cases”
However, when prosecutors asked him what he was referring to when he informed Spinelli that he had solved his son’s problem in Celle with the housing plan (conversation ended up in the wiretaps and in the investigation papers regarding the project in the ‘Colonie Bergamasche’ area), Toti replied: “Probably there was some practice that had gotten stuck and therefore I communicated to Spinelli that the regional offices had solved the problems. My references on this kind of practices were Cozzani (Toti’s chief of staff, who also ended up under house arrest as part of the investigation, ed.) or Marco Scajola. I believe the Region’s urban planning office was responsible, therefore Doctor Croce”.
“I specifically asked for votes for Ilaria Cavo”
Finally, Toti also gave an account to the magistrates of the electoral dinner of 12 September 2020 in which, according to the investigators, Toti spoke with representatives of the Riesi community of Genoa, Maurizio and Arturo Testato get votes in favor of Ilaria Cavo, then a candidate for the Regional Council. “Surely I specifically asked for votes for Ilaria Cavo talking to one of the two Testas. The meaning of my intervention was to ask to lend a hand to Cavo, despite the misunderstandings that had existed“, the governor responded.
