The former regional councilor died in Turin Angelo Burzi, one of the leading figures of the Piedmontese political world in the center-right area. According to preliminary information, it would be a suicide. Burzi would have shot himself to the head. The weapon is regularly reported to the carabinieri, who are carrying out investigations. He was 73 years old.
About ten days ago Angelo Burzi he had been sentenced to 3 years by the Turin Court of Appeal as part of the ‘Refborsopoli’ investigation which also involved the former governor of the Region, Roberto Cota. The accusation was embezzlement and referred to the expenditure of funds destined for the groups represented in the Regional Council in the years 2010-2014. The trial returned to the trial benches after the Cassation in 2019 had annulled the previous ordinary appeal sentence. In particular, the judges were scrutinizing the ways in which the then councilors used the funds destined for the functioning of the group they belonged to.
Class of ’48, he had a degree in electronic engineering. One of the founders of Forza Italia in Piedmont, from 1994 until ’95 he was the coordinator for the province of Turin. Later he was elected to the regional council on the majority list. He was also group leader of the party and also president of the special commission for the revision of the regional statute until May ’97. The Magellano foundation, promoted five years ago, was his latest initiative: a think tank to relaunch Turin because as he said in an interview with “Lo Spiffero” Turin and, consequently, Piedmont cannot be left in the blink of an eye “.
Cota: he experienced Reimbursement as an injustice – “Angelo was intelligent, but above all he was of great honesty and rectitude. He lived with profound injustice in Reimbursement City, on which I believe it is now necessary to study in depth”. The former president of the Piedmont Region, Roberto Cota, is moved by speaking of Angelo Burzi, a former councilor and regional councilor who committed suicide on Christmas night. “In recent years I have tried to stay close to him, but everyone reacts in their own way – adds the former governor consulted by ANSA -. Angelo did not give peace of the injustice with which the Rimborsopoli affair was handled, one of the most important pages. .
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