Toti investigation, the prosecutor’s suspicion: elegant dinners to compensate for the favors received
New troubles for Giovanni Totiin addition to the alleged corruption the illicit financing. At the last event at Villa Zerbino there were six hundred guests. PMs now investigate the payments made to the governor starting in 2016in particular – reports Repubblica – they are suspicious of those minimum and fragmented quotas which may have evaded the traceability. “Gentlemen, enjoy your meal, you have paid for it, deserved it, earned it.” With these words, on the evening of April 11, 2024, Giovanni Toti concludes his speech to the participants at the last of his periodic funding dinners. In eight years the minimum participation fee has been loweredby a thousand at 450 eurosbut the number of guests multiplied: from 186 to over 600. By proxy and finance, however – continues Repubblica – those elegant dinners were also the way of compensate for favors received. The interceptions: Spinelli to Cosulich (another port entrepreneur): “I bring eight”. The reply: “Eh belin you see, you really belin you’re the usual cheapskate belin. I I bring twenty“.
For example, to that of March 10, 2023 Aldo Spinelli – based on what was reconstructed by Repubblica – must repay Toti for the help obtained for a construction project, concerning the housing plan, relating to the luxury real estate operation of Punta dell’Olmo in Celle Ligure, on the Riviera. According to investigating judge Paola Faggioni you could also participate in the dinners”through a third party“, a mechanism for make it more complicated to actually understand how much a company pays. That is, minimum and fragmented quotas so as not to make the financing traceable. Giorgio Sacchi, owner of the company of the same name from Savona which carries out the work in Celle, explains – according to what is known to Repubblica – to Aldo that, in relation to the participation in Toti’s dinner, his son Roberto Spinelli “he would prefer that we do it as a business and then he reimburses them to us as Punta dell’Olmo, because he would prefer that didn’t appear“. Aldo Spinelli replies: “Oh… I had eight of my managers come… I invited eight of my managers because he wants us to bring a lot of people… Toti…”.
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