Renzi: € 548 thousand for hotels and restaurants. “Open money for politics”
For the judges of the review court, “the Open Foundation is” a symbiotic creature with Matteo Renzi and its grouping in the Democratic Party “. From 2012 to 2018 he was “offered” services for 548 thousand euros. Hotel, restaurant, theater and theater expenses for rent. And again, telephone expenses, photographic services and video shooting. These are the services that – reads the Fatto Quotidiano – would have been paid for by Open and which the leader of Italia Viva would have used over the years. The Foundation would have disbursed in total, for various services “enjoyed” by the former premier, about 549 thousand euros. Two days ago, the magistrates closed the investigations against Matteo Renzi and 14 others. The leader of IV together with former ministers Maria Elena Boschi and Luca Lotti, the entrepreneur Marco Carrai and Alberto Bianchi (who was president of the Open) is being investigated for taking part in illegal financing.
The magistrates – continues the Fact – believe that the Open was a political-organizational articulation of the Renzian current of the Democratic Party, so much so that the former prime minister would have “directed” it. According to the prosecutors, part of the voluntary donations to the Open (3.5 million in total from 2014 to 2018) were used to “support the political activities of Renzi, Lotti and Boschi and the Renzian current”. The judges consider the exchange of emails between Bianchi, Renzi, Boschi and Lotti to be “important”: “Avv. Bianchi illustrates the economic situation of the Foundation, negative as at 30.09.2014 for 176,430 euros, the imaginable amount of the cost to organize the Leopolda 2014, indicated in about 400 thousand euros and the importance of finding sponsors “.
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