Open Foundation, investigations closed for 11: there are Renzi, Boschi and Lotti

The Florence prosecutor’s office is notifying at this time the notice of closure of the investigations as part of the investigation into alleged irregularities in the financing of Open, the foundation active between 2012 and 2018 to financially support the rise and political activity by Matteo Renzi, first as mayor of Florence and then as secretary of the Democratic Party. Among the 11 people investigated are the former prime minister and leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi, the former minister and current leader of Italia Viva in the Camera Maria Elena Boschi, the deputy of the Pd Luca Lotti, the former president of the Open Foundation Alberto Bianchi and the entrepreneur Marco Carrai. Senator Renzi and the deputies Lotti and Boschi are accused of the crime of illegal party financing, since the prosecutor, through the deputy prosecutor Luca Turco and the deputy Antonino Nastasi, considers the Open Foundation a joint party. “The end of the investigation into the Open affair is really excellent news – comments Renzi – After two years of incessant investigations, searches judged illegitimate by the Supreme Court, tissues illegally passed to the newspapers, the prosecution monologue ends. Finally the moment arrives. in which we pass from the sewer of the executioner to the civilization of the trial. And there at last the facts and the law count. At the end of this scandalous story the truth will emerge: there is no illegal financing for parties because everything is reclaimed and traced “. “The Leopolda – after all – was not the manifestation of a current or a part of the Democratic Party, but – claims the leader of IV – a place of freedom, without flags and with all the funding provided for by the law on foundations. When the judge criminal wants to decide the forms of politics we are facing a dangerous encroachment for the separation of powers. They want a political trial in politics, we will ask for justice in the courtrooms “. “Now Renzi – explains his press office – has 20 days to ask to be questioned by Prosecutor Luca Turco. The hearing for the possible indictment is expected in the spring of 2022”.