Liguria, prosecutors’ suspicion of Signorini’s €200,000 consultancy to the entrepreneur Vianello
Giovanni Toti today he will be heard by prosecutors, a crucial point in the investigation that led to his arrest on corruption charges. The president of Liguria he will have to provide many explanations, not only on the relationships with the entrepreneur of the port of Genoa Aldo Spinellibut also on that money transferred from the party’s current account to the personal one, three suspicious bank transfers for a total of €55 thousand ended up in the sights of the Prosecutor’s Office. But this practice of “transfer” – according to what La Repubblica reports – was also adopted by a close collaborator of his, his head of cabinet Matteo Cozzani, also under house arrest. The rampant former mayor of Portovenere, for the investigators he would have done the same thing contested against Toti, they popped up more than €27 thousand passed from one account to another and considered “opaque”.
It is a completely different matter, however, – based on what La Repubblica reports – the trend that concerns the advice entrusted by the former president of the port Paolo Emilio Gentlemen to the entrepreneur Mauro Vianellothe “comrade V” because of his closeness to the centre-left. In his new role as CEO of the multiutility Iren, Signorini has entrusted Vianello with a consultancy worth 200 thousand euros. Now the role has been suspended by Iren (just as Signorini no longer has any delegation and does not receive a salary). But the Prosecutor’s Office wants to understand if it is a sort of “reward” or one repayment for favors of Vianello to Signorini who ended up in the investigation, from wedding receptions to Apple Watches.
Toti, his lawyer explains the defensive line: “He does not rule out resignation”
Toti he is ready to be questioned by the prosecutors of the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office. His lawyer reveals the defense line. “The president – says Stefano Savi to Il Corriere della Sera – is also evaluating the hypothesis of resign. From the beginning you said that it is an evaluation that will be madebut not alone because it has significant repercussions on the institutional framework and must be undertaken after consulting his collaborators and the political forces of his majority”. On the relationship between Toti and Spinellithe lawyer admits: “Maybe a little beyond the normdue to Spinelli’s character, but no further than a working relationship between a president who deals with matters of interest to the region and an entrepreneur”.
Savi also addresses the topic of Spinelli’s funding to the Committee of his client: “Toti – continues the lawyer to Il Corriere – claims to have done what he did in hundreds more casesof which we will make a list, both for those who contributed to his Committees and for those who did not, because he looked at the public interest that was of facilitate investments in Liguria. Many went to him, some even sent by the opposition, but he always behaved towards everyone in the same way and in broad daylight.” On the compensation to Paita of Italia viva for the civil defamation lawsuit explains: “It was an issue that was relevant totally into political activity“.
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