Russiagate, Agrigento prosecutor asks for trial for Mifsud

“Hotel nights”, many times luxurious, lunches and dinners in trendy restaurants, “plane trips” and even “phone top-ups and the payment of bills and the purchase of consumer goods”, for a total of almost 50 thousand euros, “paid with the credit cards of the University Consortium of Agrigento”. Here it is, in black and white, the indictment of the Prosecutor of Agrigento against Joseph Mifsud, a mysterious key figure at the center of the Russiagate international intrigue whose traces have been lost since the end of October 2017. learns the Adnkronos, have asked for the indictment of Mifsud, accused of embezzlement in competition, and two other people, Olga Matraxia, “as manager of the General Affairs sector of the University of Agrigento” and Andrea Occhipinti, “as manager of the Consortium’s financial sector “, as stated in the request to the GUP. For the Prosecutor, that money would have been used for the “satisfaction of exclusively personal expenses for the benefit of Mifsud” and “of the subjects, not identified, who accompanied him”. In particular, the Prosecutor Luigi Patrinaggio and the deputy Salvatore Vella, who coordinated the investigation, with the prosecutor Giuli Bisso, contest the mysterious character whose traces have been lost, and to whom it was not even possible to deliver the request. of indictment, a series of expenses that are listed, one by one. From € 2,693.47 “for use of the credit card” to € 804.88 for “travel expenses reimbursement”, and another € 1,445 for credit cards. And also reimbursements of travel expenses, many, for thousands of euros. All for a total of € 46,117.34, as stated in the request for indictment viewed by Adnkronos. Not only. In Mifsud, also recently condemned by the Court of Auditors of Palermo to compensate the tax damage to the province of Agrigento, the Prosecutor of Agrigento also disputes the embezzlement of “a MacBook Air notebook worth € 2,455, an Ipad worth 695 euros, a BlackBerry worth 469 euros, and other mobile phones for a value that exceeds another two thousand euros.The mysterious character disappeared after his involvement in the international affaire Joseph Mifsud, who had been appointed president of the University Consortium of Agrigento in the 2009 on the recommendation of the then president of the Province Eugenio D’Orsi, he disappeared from the radar of justice after the US investigators of the time made known his involvement in Russiagate in October 2017. He was searched everywhere, in the his apartment in Rome, on his former campus at Link University in Rome, in London. According to the National Democratic Committee which sued Mifsud also and for Hillary Clinton’s hacking of thousands of emails in 2016, the professor may have “disappeared or perhaps died.” Many rumors, some would even give it in Russia. Two years ago Joseph Mifsud’s lawyer, Stephan Roh, interviewed by Adnkronos, said he did not know where his client was. “I don’t know where he is, the last time I heard from him was last spring, through a third person,” he just said. To understand where Mfsud was, two years ago former Justice Minister William Barr and former Prosecutor John Durham, who conducted the counter-investigation into Russiagate on behalf of former President Donald Trump, flew to Rome to ask the help of our intelligence. But nothing to do. In 2019 he sent an audio to Adnkronos ‘No contact with friends and family’ On November 13, 2019 Mifsud sent an audio to Adnkronos with his voice: “I hope you will make my words known, please listen to the attached files” , a message, sent with an anonymous and encrypted mail system based in Switzerland, signed JoMif, an acronym that stands, or should stand, for Joseph Mifsud. “Today is November 11, 2019, I’m Joseph Mifsud, this is my voice”. Thus began the audio in English sent by e-mail, in two different files, in which a voice that claims to be that of Joseph Mifsud, the professor at the center of Russiagate, makes a series of statements. “First of all I would like to say that I have absolutely no contact with friends and family and that I have had no contact with friends and family for several months. It has been nearly two years now that the whole issue has exploded and been presented to the world media and on the world stage as if I had anything to do with matters concerning countries or if I had tried to infiltrate me, is absolutely absurd, in programs, contacts or any other institution in the world, “the voice stated. “I have been a man of relationships all my life and this is what I know how to do well. I try to connect one group with another (but, ed.) No and I stress no, no one in any service, secret service or intelligence or none of that kind. If I had any contact with them I did not know that that person or this person had ties to any institution. And this is extremely important, “said the voice in the audio. Another two years have passed, in the meantime it is a worldwide pandemic has broken out, but there is no trace of Joseph Mifsud. La Pocura di Agrigento continues to look for him, but so far without success. The preliminary hearing will be held on February 12, 2022 in front of the investigating judge Francesco Provenzano. But in all likelihood it could jump. For notification issues. The ‘ghost’ of Mifsud continues to hover but remains impregnable. (by Elvira Terranova)