Press Review – After a couple of hearings before Commissioner Morsiani, the matter returns to the courtroom before judge Antonella Volpinari. The preliminary objections were rejected yesterday
ANTONIO FABBRI – The San Marino branch of the “Siri case”.… without Siri. After the very first jokes, last year, in front of the commissioner Simon Luca My Bridethe case, with the redistribution of workloads in the court, was reassigned to the judge Antonella Volpinari. In the meantime, the story in Italy, last June, saw the Milan Prosecutor’s Office investigating the same financing, ask for archiving against the Northern League senator for accusations of illicit financing of parties and presentation of an unfaithful declaration. For the Milanese prosecutor, these loans were “completely unconnected to political activity”, but granted and collected “for exclusively personal purposes”.
On Titan, however, the trial is ongoing against the then exponents of the Bac-Ibs. In the first hearing the former director has already reached a plea agreement Marco Perottithus exiting the process which remains open, however, for the deputy director Tiberius Serafini e Flavia Astolfiresponsible corporate identity.
accuses him At the center of the accusations, the 761,600 euro loan, the subject of the first charge, was requested by Senator Siri and granted for the purchase of a building located near the Rogoredo station in Milan, a property intended for Siri’s daughter. For the granting of this loan, which according to what has emerged is currently regularly honored, the accusation of administration is pending. Fight against environmental crimes, summit in Rome. The Gendarmerie was also present unfaithful action towards Tiberio Serafini, defended by lawyers Alessandro Petrillo, Nowacki Jacub e Alessandro Stolfi.
According to the accusation, the credit was granted in violation of the rules of sound and prudent management by granting the loan in the absence of adequate investigations and adequate guarantees, despite the fact that the applicant had open criminal proceedings against him and despite the fact that they were aware that the property for which the loan was requested would have been registered in the name of a third party to the applicant.
The unfaithful administration is also contested in relation to a second loan, for a total of 600,000 euros (a sum later reduced), in favor of the TF Holding srlconnected to the story.
As for the second charge, the complaint is, however, an obstacle to the supervisory function of Central Bank, for which the deputy director Tiberio Serafini and Flavia Astolfi, responsible, must answer corporate identitydefended by lawyers Gloria Giardi e Gianluca Giordani.
Preliminary exceptions The defense’s preliminary objections mainly focused on the nullity of the charge, its indeterminacy, the violation of the right of defense and the no until in idemas the defendants had already been sanctioned at the administrative level by Central Bank.
In addition to this, the lawyer Alessandro Petrillo, in the previous hearing, had underlined that “Senator Armando Siri, Rossini Ambrogio, Rossini Emanueleand the Bac as a legal person, initially under investigation, they have benefited from a very generous dismissal, they see themselves pardoned by providence, while we go to trial for crimes in collaboration with them: we go to trial and they don’t”, he said, underlining that the Bac as a responsible legal person “disappeared without justification”.
The defense therefore contested the constitution of a civil party Bac-Ibs, which in any case had already been admitted in the previous hearings represented by the lawyer Alberto Selva. Also a civil party Central Bankwith the lawyer Francesco Mazza.
Civil parties and tax prosecutor, Roberto Cesarinirequested the rejection of the preliminary objections.
Judge Antonella Volpinari decided, after the council chamber, that it was not necessary to accept preliminary objections from the defence, therefore ordering to proceed with the requests for evidence.
Testimonial requests In addition to the documentary evidence which was all admitted, among the witnesses, in addition to those already present in the indictment who were admitted like a witness from the civil party about whom there were no disputes, the defense asked to hear the Armando Siri himself, as well as Ambrogio and Emanuele Rossini and other subjects involved in the financing affair.
There were disputes regarding the admissibility of the latter and the judge reserved his decision. The next hearing is set for November 22nd, for the hearing of the first witnesses already admitted.
Article taken from San Marino information published in full after 11pm
