The INPS, with the lawyer Aldo Tagliente, wants to be a civil party for any damages in the preliminary hearing, which started this morning before the magistrate of Milan Tiziana Gueli, against the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè and two other defendants, including partner Dimitri Kunz , and two companies in proceedings for aggravated fraud against the group in the case of Visibilia.
INPS was admitted as a civil party for damage to property and image.
According to the prosecutors, Visibilia Editore and Visibilia Concessionaria, companies of the group founded by the senator FdI, requested and received redundancy payments during the period of the Covid pandemic for 13 workers for 126 thousand euros, but the latter worked.
The minister is not present in the room.
The preliminary hearing may end with a decision as to whether the case should be taken to court within a short period of time with the setting of two or three more hearings in the coming weeks. Prosecutors Marina Gravina and Luigi Luzi are disputing alleged irregularities related to the unemployment fund received for 13 workers during the Covid with large damages to the social security institution which, without compensation, wants to be a civil party.
It is the one that started today the second outbreak initiated by Milanese prosecutors in which the senator risks ending the trial. The preliminary hearing began last week for false physical contact against the parliamentarian and 19 other people, including legal ones, and which, although they proceed quickly, should come to ending at the end of November.
According to the reconstruction, the parliamentarian at the time Fratelli d’Italia, Kunz and Paolo Giuseppe Concordia, external collaborator with the personnel management functions of Visibilia Editore and Visibilia Concessionaria – a company of the group founded by the person -politics and where she left in 2022 – they would have been aware that they requested and received the redundancy fund “to support affected businesses” which ‘ pandemic to the 13 workers. The certificates, as well as the results of the INPS study and a series of studies, were collected during the investigation: all of them, or almost all of them, would have confirmed that the minister knew. She would have been aware that they continued to work while the social security institute paid the money allocated during the crisis: more than 126 thousand euros, for more than 20 thousand hours total
So Santanchè, as well as the other two, are accused of having “falsely stated” that these workers had paid “zero hours”.when they “did their deeds” in “wise work”. Also under investigation are the improvements that would be given as compensation for the lower income from the CIG compared to the salary: “difference”, wrote the prosecutors, that would be paid with “false reimbursements for” expense reports and travel expenses. ‘”. But these are not the only problems the minister will face: the Milan judge is investigating, among other things, the bio-food companies she also created and left behind. Especially Ki Group srl, which went bankrupt last January.The bankruptcy trustee’s report is expected to be filed in November, after which the prosecutors will decide how to proceed.
Santanchè: ‘I dismiss your accusation today, it doesn’t bother me’
“I am dismissing the possibility of a lawsuit today, and then I am here to talk about politics and nothing relevant to my political activity and as a minister. The Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè says this while answering questions from the media on the legal issues when they arrived at the establishment of Travel Experience Ttg, the tourism fair in Rimini. To reporters asking and asking if she cares, she replied: “Do I look like I care about you? I’m hopeful.”
Visibilia Editore spa wants a plea bargain in the fraud hearing
He asked the Visibilia Editore spa to settle, jointly accused, among others, with the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè in the preliminary hearing based on the accusation of aggravated fraud against the INPS for irregularities the redundancy fund is charged as a reduction during the Covid period. And the defense of the FdI senator has requested that the proceedings for territorial jurisdiction be transferred to Rome, the headquarters of the social security institution, and Milan judge Tiziana Gueli will decide on the defense request on October 23 .
In the plea bargain request, with the favorable opinion of the Prosecutor’s Office, it is proposed to pay a fine of 23 thousand eurosfor the spa, one of the two accused companies, in addition to paying the money that was disputed in the assessment of INPS reports. From Visibilia Editore spa Santanchè separated positions and sections in 2022.
2024-10-09 10:52:00
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