«In the investigation papers on the president of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, the magistrates write that he must be blocked because there is an electoral campaign. I ask myself: if this investigation has been going on for years – the leader of Forza Italia in the Senate Maurizio Gasparri states with a biting tone in an interview with Tempo – why in past elections nothing happened on a judicial level to governor Toti? The timing of the investigation is truly strange and complex to understand, but this does not mean that justice will take its course.”
revealed that the financier Pasquale Striano, who ended up at the center of the dossier scandal, also investigated the affair concerning president Toti, in particular the financing he received. What do you think?
«First of all, allow me to say that I hope that the Striano case does not go away. His behavior during his assignment at the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office was questionable. Toti (in December 2021, ed.) was also the subject of his observations. It is up to the Perugia Prosecutor’s Office to make its own assessments, because the national anti-mafia commission, out of respect for the Umbrian prosecutors, did not hear the people under investigation.”
Corruption for the exercise of function and for acts contrary to official duties, the accusations made against President Toti. Once again the financing of a politician ends up in the sights of the prosecutors: should the current legislation be changed?
«It is useless to deny that we should return to a form of public financing to escape this hypocrisy: where public contribution does not exist and private funding is borderline and a harbinger of investigations. All we have to do is abolish politics, as the grillini asked in the past. I want to launch a provocation: speaking only on an economic level, citizenship income and super bonuses have had a greater impact than public financing. This last instrument would have cost one twentieth of the initiatives desired by the M5s. Let me add something.”
Nail.
“That contribution we are talking about in the case of President Toti was recorded in the fundraising and someone who wants to be corrupt certainly doesn’t record it in the electoral contributions.”
Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said he was “perplexed about the timing of the arrest” of the president of Liguria. Do you agree with the Keeper of the Seals’ statements?
“Without a doubt, also in light of the fact that for a long period of his life he was a public prosecutor. I have nothing to object to his frankness.”
Two leaders of Forza Italia are involved in the investigation by the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office: the brothers Italo Maurizio Testa and Arturo Angelo Testa. Both are accused of electoral corruption aggravated by the «purpose of facilitating Cosa Nostra, and in particular the Cammarata clan of the district of I laughed.”
«They would have been entrusted with the task of looking for fellow villagers in Liguria to make them vote. At a certain point one of the two wanted to run for the regional elections and the denial of other party members emerged in the wiretaps. The motivation? Being “from Riesi” he could have attracted the attention of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate. A clear act of caution.”
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2024-05-13 22:36:47