Liguria investigation, Spinelli: “Lega, Berlusconi and Dem to the government. Draghi president, 5s at home”
“We should send the 5 Stars home and form the Democratic Party, the League, Berlusconi, these people… my goodness, what a thing.” AND the president of the Republic? “We should do Draghi (…) for 7 years we are in an iron barrel…”. Speaking, intercepted on January 28, 2022, is Aldo Spinelli, the entrepreneur king of the port of Genoa, ended up under house arrest last Tuesday for corruption and illicit financing together – among others – with the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, his head of Cabinet, Matteo Cozzani and the former head of the Port Authority, Paolo Emilio Signorini.
As reported Daily fact, that morning Spinelli was sitting with Signorini at the usual Bar La Piazza, the scene among other things of some of the corruption agreements contested by the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office. The election of the President of the Republic is underway in Parliament (in which Giovanni Toti also participated, as governor): the following day, on the eighth ballot, there will be the re-election of Sergio Mattarella. These are also the weeks in which the idea of the breakwater returns forcefully between Palazzo Chigi and the Ministry of Infrastructure, a project that is close to Spinelli’s heart also because – as he himself reported in another intercepted conversation – “now the my business is worth 1 billion.”
Spinelli is categorical: “Do you understand? We need to make Dragons but don’t let them say hello (bullshit, ed)… Salvini, don’t ruin everything… and then there will be war for the Prime Minister… but they bring in Cartabia”. Here then the ideal government of the king of the port: “We should send home the 5 Star Paolo… e Do Pd, Lega, Berlusconi, these people…”. On the other hand, Spinelli, shortly afterwards, clarifies: “We have a capital that my dear… now we have it, I’m telling you, we have three large, most important groups in the world that have set their sights on us (. ..) but I tell you if they gave you 6/700 million… Paolo, who makes you do it??…”.
Spinelli’s trust in the Draghi government does not wane as the months pass. On May 27, 2022, again intercepted, Spinelli said to Signorini: “The Italian state at this moment is called Giovannni… Franco and Draghi…”. The reference is to the then ministers Enrico Giovannini (Infrastructure), Daniele Franco (Economy) and obviously to the then prime minister Mario Draghi. “But look, let’s have Giovannini come in June and sort everything out,” replies Signorini.
Months go by, October arrives and the right-wing government is elected. And with him, Spinelli’s perspective also changes. On 4 December 2022, the new minister, Matteo Salvini, arrives in Genoa. However, the deputy prime minister’s agenda is very busy. Spinelli then – writes the GdF in an information – makes “broad hand gestures evoking ‘handling of money'”, pronouncing, we read, “a sarcastic person does everything with this… rest assured that that guy over there (…) I guarantee it… and Rixi too (…)”. Spinelli, according to the investigators, “alluded to the possibility of obtaining the availability of Salvini and Edoardo Rixi through a disbursement/gift of money”. A disbursement which, from the investigation documents filed so far, it is not clear whether it occurred. It should obviously be noted that Matteo Salvini, like Rixi, Giovannini, Franco, Giovannini and Draghi are completely unrelated to the investigation and could not have imagined these allusions.
The mayor of Genoa is also convinced that the political wind is in some way favorable, Marco Bucci (not under investigation), who on 5 November 2022, intercepted, discussed with governor Toti about “drawing a line on how we divide things in 5 years” at the port: “In my opinion we need to talk about it with Rixi and Salvini and get them to give us a hand… even Meloni at the limit”. The same Bucci who in August 2022, during the election campaign, urged the head of the Authority, Signorini, to go to Mauro Vianello (under investigation for corruption, for other matters), gray eminence of the Genoese PD, to say: “A bit of PD must support Giovanni (Toti, ed.), some of the Democratic Party must support Rixi, period”. Here the Spinellian dream of broad agreements that sees everyone in except the M5S materializes.
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