Calisto Tanzi, Mannino: “In ’92 he granted his private plane several times to Giovanni Falcone”

“I have a debt with Calisto Tanzi that I have to reveal today: between ’91 and ’92 the Cavaliere del Lavoro has sometimes granted the use of his personal plane for a use requested by me. When the Public Prosecutor of Parma, subjecting me to questioning as a person informed of the facts, asked me why, having noticed that he had the travel papers in his hands, I replied, asking in turn, the Prosecutor why he did this to me he asks having ascertained the names of the passengers on the flight. He replied with a faint smile. The name was that of Dr. Giovanni Falcone. The flight offered by Tanzi served, and not infrequently, to make Dr. Giovanni Falcone travel on the Rome-Palermo route ”. This was revealed to Adnkronos by former minister Calogero Mannino, commenting on the death of Calisto Tanzi. “Other politicians including a President of the Republic were sentenced to reimburse the expenses (for the benefit of company liquidation) for the benefit of a few flights. I thanked the prosecutor – Mannino says again – Today I thank Calisto Tanzi, to whose memory I pay the tribute of honor it deserves ”. And then he adds: “With Calisto Tanzi, a great figure of entrepreneur of the type of men ‘of good will’ disappears. for the innovative content based on modern concepts of science applied to natural and traditional productions and for the ability to organize very efficient and above all innovative logistic systems. “” Calisto Tanzi was this. a banking and financial system that precisely in the 80s / 90s should have assisted and guided (and not managed with restricted methods of the banks that were also going to end their cycle) – says Mannino – It fell because the political system, also the part that he had openly supported, could not and perhaps could not defend him, as in any logic of political-economic enterprise relationship ” . “The validity of the Tanzi company is deprived of a liquidation that covered a large part of the debt exposure, thus demonstrating the arbitrary artifice, and today the foreign (non-Italian) company that has taken over Parmalat (well-known and efficient brand international importance) is financed with the Parmalat fund – adds the former minister -. Tanzi was an honest provincial who did not know how to rise to the rank of financial brigand. And he was tried, convicted and marginalized “.