“It is likely that…” –

News in the legal case of the Agnelli inheritance. The Court of Review confirms, albeit on a precautionary basis, the prosecutor’s accusatory hypothesis, explaining that “malicious knowledge on the part of any of the four co-suspects”, i.e. the three Elkann brothers, cannot be “excluded”. “The fraud was likely the object of malice” on the part of the grandchildren of Marella Caracciolo, the widow of Gianni Agnelli, the judges wrote according to what Corriere della Sera reported. The three were “on excellent terms with their grandmother” and knew “of her habits and health problems that made her stay in Italy prevalent”. After the woman’s death. “it is likely that they endorsed, with painful adhesive will, the strategies already suggested and implemented with the active consultancy of Gianluca Ferrero”, i.e. the family accountant, who is also under investigation.

The Review in the ordinance confirmed the seizure decree issued by the Turin magistrates on 6 March of paper and digital documents. But above all, the document retraces the stages of the intricate story in which John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann, the accountant Ferrero and the Swiss notary Robert Urs Von Gruninghem are investigated. Everything revolves around the alleged fictitious residence of Marella Caracciolo Agnelli in Switzerland: according to the magistrates, the woman has lived in Italy most of the time since at least 2014. The testimonies of the service personnel who confirmed “the absolute and undisputed permanence in Italy” are weighty, the judges write.

The disputed crimes arose from the case between Margherita Agnelli (daughter of the lawyer and Marella Caracciolo) and the three Elkann children, including fraud once morest the State for failure to pay the inheritance tax on an estate of approximately 900 million euros . For the defense lawyers – Paolo Siniscalchi, Federico Cecconi, Carlo Re – the Corriere reports, failure to pay the tax would in this case be considered an administrative offense.