Lega funds, two accountants Di Rubba and Manzoni sentenced

The Gup of Milan Guida Salvini sentenced to 5 years (the request was 4 years and 8 months) Andrea Di Rubba and to 4 years and 4 months (the request was 4 years) Andrea Manzoni, the two auditors of the League in Parliament, accused of embezzlement and disturbed freedom of choice of the contractor. The decision comes at the end of the process with an abbreviated procedure in the investigation into the sale of the headquarters of the Lombardia Film Commission Foundation, an entity in which the Region and the Municipality of Milan participate. In the case of the sale of the Cormano warehouse, completed in December 2017, the two – under house arrest since last September – would have drained € 800,000 of public funds. The judge, who raised the sentence for both defendants by four months with respect to the request of the prosecutor, also considering the procedural behavior, granted generic extenuating circumstances equivalent to aggravating circumstances. Not only that: the judge “declares the two defendants banned in perpetuity from public offices and in a state of legal interdiction during the execution of the sentence” and “banned for four years from exercising the profession of accountant”. “to be settled in a separate judgment with the assignment of a provisionally executive provisional” of 150 thousand euros to the Lombardia Film Commission Foundation (the request was 1.7 million euros) and 25 thousand to the Municipality of Milan (117 thousand the request) who have formed civil parties. According to the accusatory system of the deputy prosecutor Eugenio Fusco and Stefano Civardi, Di Rubba, who was president of the foundation and his firm partner Manzoni, would have shared with another accountant, Michele Scillieri (he has already negotiated 3 years and 4 months) , about half of the 800 thousand euros spent by the foundation for the headquarters in Cormano through a tour of companies and nominees. Instead, Francesco Barachetti, the entrepreneur who would be involved in the subtraction of public money, chose the ordinary rite, the process is underway.In the investigation carried out by the financiers of the economic and financial police nucleus, as well as the accountant Scillieri, in whose studio in the center the first domicile of the ‘Lega per Salvini premier’ list was registered in Milan, the two figureheads Luca Sostegni and Fabio Barbarossa (brother-in-law of Scillieri) who have negotiated: four years and ten months for Sostegni, two years and a month for Barbarossa. From the first line of investigations, others were born, which are also linked to the investigation of the Genoa prosecutor’s office on the 49 million of the League.