accusations of fraud and cash laundering for Covid masks –

The previous president of the Chamber, Irene Pivetti, was despatched to trial by the Gup of the Courtroom of Busto Arsizio (Varese), accepting the request of the prosecutor Ciro Caramore. Collectively together with her, her daughter, her son-in-law, the entrepreneur Luciano Mega and different individuals are additionally concerned, all accused in varied capacities of fraud in public provides, chapter, embezzlement, cash laundering and self-laundering. The accusation focuses on a sale of masks from China in the course of the Covid emergency, with a complete worth of the medical units amounting to 35 million euros.

In response to investigations, masks price solely 10 million have been delivered, of poor high quality, virtually unusable and with a false CE mark. 13 civil events appeared in courtroom, together with the State, the Ministry of the Inside, the Customs Company, the Income Company and several other medical-hospital services that obtained the faulty masks. The protection had requested that proceedings be dismissed, however the trial was confirmed and the listening to will open on November twenty first.

It’s possible that the protection will once more increase an objection of territorial incompetence, making an attempt to maneuver the trial to Milan or Rome, a request already rejected a number of occasions by the Courtroom of Busto Arsizio. In a parallel case, Milan prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia just lately requested a four-year jail sentence for Irene Pivetti, as a part of a trial for tax evasion and self-laundering. The fees concern a sequence of economic operations in 2016, together with the sale of three Ferrari Granturismos price round 10 million euros, operations which, in response to the accusation, have been used to launder illicit proceeds. The Prosecutor’s Workplace additionally requested three extra sentences, together with a three-year sentence for rally driver and former Gran Turismo champion, Leonardo Isolani.