is accused of corruption –

The president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, was placed under house arrest this morning at dawn as part of an investigation by the Genoese DDA and the financial police. The accusation against the Ligurian governor is corruption.

The soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Genoa financial police have implemented an order for the application of precautionary measures issued today by the investigating judge of the Court of Genoa, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office filed on 27 December against the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, by Paolo Emilio Signorini, former president of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, by the entrepreneurs Aldo and Roberto Spinelli, by the entrepreneur Mauro Vianello, by the board of directors of Esselunga, Francesco Moncada; and Matteo Cozzani, chief of staff of the President of the Region. The other recipients of the ordinance are Arturo Angelo Testa and Italo Maurizio Testa, and Venanzio Maurici. Signorini, under investigation for corruption in the exercise of his function and for acts contrary to his official duties, is the recipient of a measure of precautionary custody in prison, while Toti was placed under house arrest for the same crimes.

Aldo Spinelli, an entrepreneur in the logistics and real estate sector, who was placed under house arrest, is accused of corruption against Signorini and Toti. For the entrepreneur Roberto Spinelli, who is accused of corruption against the President of the Region, the interdictory measure of a temporary ban on carrying out entrepreneurial and professional activities has been ordered. Same precautionary measure for Mauro Vianello, entrepreneur operating in the Port of Genoa, accused of corruption against Signorini; for Francesco Moncada, director of Esselunga spa, who is charged with the same crime against Toti. Matteo Cozzani, head of cabinet of the president of the Liguria region, is under house arrest for ‘electoral corruption’, aggravated by the hypothesis that the crime was committed to facilitate the activity of the Cosa Nostra mafia association, in particular of the Cammarata clan of District of Riesi with interests in Genoa. Cozzani is also under investigation for corruption in the exercise of his role. Arturo Angelo Testa and Italo Maurizio Testa, representatives of the Riesi community of Genoa, are subject to the obligation to reside in the Municipality of Boltiere, on charges of aggravated electoral corruption. The same crime is accused of Venanzio Maurici, recipient of the obligation to report to the judicial police.