All about Giovanni Di Massa, the Italian manager of Iss on trial in Russia
What is known about Giovanni di Massa, the Italian manager of Iss International stopped in Moscow, Russia. He is awaiting trial for drug possession
Sources from the Foreign Ministry confirmed to the Ansa and Adnkronos news agencies the detention in Moscow, Russia , of an Italian manager: he is Giovanni Di Massa, 61, manager of the energy services company ISS International.
Di Massa would not be under arrest but on probation, and would be awaiting trial. He is accused of possession of drugs.
From the Farnesina they let it be known that the consulate general is dealing with the case, without adding further details.
WHAT ISS INTERNATIONAL DOES
ISS International is based in Rome and Milan, with offices also in the Persian Gulf (United Arab Emirates, Qatar) and in Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Congo, Mozambique). It deals with engineering services for the oil & gas industry.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE ENTRY OF THE ITALIAN MANAGER, GIOVANNI DI MASSA
According to intelligence sources cited by the newspaper La Stampa , Giovanni Di Massa was stopped in the night between Monday and Tuesday in Moscow while he was traveling by car for checks (which intensified following the Wagner Group's march on the capital ). Searched by the agents, the manager was found in possession of a plastic bag containing about 1 gram of mephedrone, a substance with effects similar to cocaine.
La Stampa , which has received the information from independent Russian sources, specifies that it is not possible to verify the validity of the accusations against Di Massa: "With the Moscow regime it is prudent indeed to doubt it", and it is possible that the Russian government wants to exploit the detention of the manager to blackmail Italy and obtain a weakening of support for Ukraine.
THE ARTEM USS CASE
Di Massa's arrest comes a few weeks after the Artem Uss case, the Russian businessman who escaped from house arrest in Basiglio, in the metropolitan city of Milan, while he was awaiting extradition to the United States. Her father is Aleksandr Uss , governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, a territory in northern Russia.
THE LINKS OF IIS INTERNATIONAL WITH GAZPROM
ISS International did not comment. The company – and Di Massa himself – participated in the construction of the large Amur natural gas processing plant, managed by the Russian state energy company Gazprom.
THE CURRICULUM OF GIOVANNI DI MASSA
Giovanni Di Massa – reads his LinkedIn profile – has been Country Manager Middle East of ISS International since June 2022.
From 2018 to 2020, he worked for the Chinese energy infrastructure company CPECC in the Amur Region, Russia. Previously (from 2014 to 2018) he was project manager for Technip, a French company specializing in engineering for the oil industry.
Born in 1961, he graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the La Sapienza University of Rome in 1987.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/giovanni-di-massa-manager-italiano-processo-russia/ on Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:27:34 +0000.