Liguria/ Turning point at the top of the Spinelli group: Ermini (ex CSM) president of Spinivest
New defensive strategy, with a twist, for Aldo Spinelli, the Ligurian entrepreneur under house arrest since May 7th accused of having paid bribes to the former president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti in exchange for favors on strategic port practices.
His lawyers, Alessandro Vaccaro and Andrea Vernazza, presented their case to the court yesterday morning the request with which they ask that their client’s house arrest be revoked, especially by virtue of a new element that has emerged in the last few hours, namely the recomposition of the board of Spinivest srl, the holding company on which all the group’s companies depend. As reported by Secolo XIX, the radical choice, made under the direction of Vaccaro, is that of two figures of guarantee who, according to the defense, should defuse at the source any danger of repetition of the crime of corruption, identified so far by the preliminary investigation judge and then by the Review Court. The president of the company, the only one in which Spinelli still maintains shares, will be David Ermini, a criminal lawyer, several times a member of parliament in the center-left, current member of the national leadership of the PD and above all former vice president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, the self-governing body of the judiciary headed by the President of the Republic. Along with him, Nicola Scodnik, a criminal lawyer himself, secretary of the Ligurian Criminal Chamber, a colleague of Vaccaro and one of the most qualified lawyers in the Genoa court, joins the holding as a councilor. Scodnik also assists the editor of Primocanale Maurizio Rossi, accused of illicit financing of Giovanni Toti’s party, in the proceedings involving Spinelli. The third member of the council, the only one confirmed, is Vittorio Gattone.
The two appointments mark a clear line of demarcation with Spininvest’s recent past and they are evidently born with the aim of raising the level of “guarantee” provided by the new administrators. Until a few days ago, when a new board of directors approved the renewed structure, the sole administrator was Gattone, while starting from the next few days there will be a president (Ermini precisely), a managing director (in all likelihood the role will be covered by Gattone) and a third director-guarantor (Scodnik).
“I am honored to take on this role,” he said. David Ermini – is a healthy Group with great development potential. I am confident that, working together with the members of the new board and the managers of the Group, we will be able to reach new goals and build a prosperous future for all our external and internal stakeholders”.
Andrea Orlando calls Ermini, ‘take a step back’
Former Democratic Party minister Andrea Orlando, candidate in pectore for the center-left in the upcoming regional elections in Liguria, called David Ermini to ask him to evaluate “carefully” the opportunity to resign from the position of president of the Spininvest holding company, which is headed by the group of Aldo Spinelli, investigated with the former governor Giovanni Toti for corruption, believing that this choice could expose “to misunderstandings and exploitation”.
Change at the top of Spinivest, Natale and D’Angelo (Pd): “Inappropriate choice”
On the appointment of Ermini, a note was released signed by Davide Natale, secretary of the Liguria Pd, and Simone D’Angelo, metropolitan secretary of the Genoa Pd. We report it below: “We learned from the newspapers with amazement and perplexity of the appointment of David Ermini to the top of the holding of the Spinelli Group. An exclusively personal and professional choice, which we consider inappropriate in the context in which it is placed with an open judicial investigation on a system that we fought and that has had negative effects on Genoa and Liguria”.
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