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Casa Benetton, Palombelli lounge, Gubitosi's (Tim) affectionate and Bourla's (Pfizer) cunning

Facts, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start

BENETTON HOUSE

PALOMBA LIVING ROOM

AFFECTION

DATA BETWEEN HOPE AND TRANSPARENCY

CALABRIAN ROADS

SCHOOL APPLES

A DRITTONE

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YESTERDAY'S ARTICLE OF START MAGAZINE

The Guardia di Finanza carried out a series of precautionary measures against former top management and some of the current managers of Autostrade per l'Italia. There would be 6 precautionary measures, according to Ansa .

The hypothesized accusations are an attack on transport safety and fraud in public supplies.

The former CEO of Autostrade per l'Italia, Giovanni Castellucci, Michele Donferri Mitelli and Paolo Berti, respectively former maintenance manager and central operations manager of the concessionaire of the Atlantia group (Edition / Benetton), are at home.

These are some of the precautionary measures carried out by the Guardia di Finanza against former executives and some current Aspi managers, as part of the investigation into sound-absorbing panels. Here are all the details and the position of Castellucci's lawyers ("Amazement and concern for a measure that is not justified in itself and that one would not want to see ending up affecting a story, that of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, which with today's Nothing to see. It should be pointed out that these are two completely distinct events. The story concerns alleged planning and executive errors of some sound-absorbing barriers in the province of Genoa ").

12-month ban on Stefano Marigliani, director of the Genoa branch now in Milan, and on employees Paolo Strazzullo and Massimo Meliani (Spea). Accusations: attack on transport safety and breach of contract in public supplies, aggravated by fraud against the State.

THE BARRIERS

The sound-absorbing barriers were not changed "to avoid the huge costs it would have involved". This is what is read in the order of the investigating judge who ordered house arrest for Castellucci, Donferri and Berti and three bans on current Autostrade executives. The structures had design errors that endangered the safety of motorists.

THE RESIN

The resin used for the sound-absorbing barriers did not have the CE mark but, as a suspect admits in the wiretapping, "they are glued with Vinavil" while others are "off guard". This is what emerges from the ordinance that led to house arrest the former leaders of Aspi, Castellucci, Donferri and Berti. It is Donferri in particular who sets the strategy to patch up the incorrect design of the structures, guaranteeing maximum savings to the company that otherwise would have had to spend 140 million euros. “How many flaps are down – asks Donferri – and how many municipalities that have broken the c…? Only Rapallo broke the c… ”. And then, laughing: "We picked them up and invented the maintenance criterion …"

THE ORDER OF THE GIP

Paolo Berti, former number three of the company, after being sentenced to five years and six months for the 40 deaths in Avellino and complains to the former maintenance manager Michele Donferri. Which, again emerges from the order of the investigating judge, advises him to keep "the business line", which led to the acquittal of the former to Giovanni Castellucci, so as to "claim 'everything there is to claim'" . “Stick to his train – Donferri says to Berti – and above all take advantage of the present moment. I understood that you are tired but you cannot blame him for the fact that there were forty-three deaths here (due to the collapse of the POnte Morandi, ed)… forty deaths there… we are all in the same boat ”.

DOSSIER CARIGE

In the order that led to the house arrest of Castellucci, an attempt by the manager to spend his high-level knowledge for personal purposes after the collapse of the Morandi bridge emerges, with an attempt to also enter the bailout of Banca Carige. "Castellucci – writes the investigating judge – tries to rebuild a good relationship with the state by offering large sums of money". The investigating judge reports in particular a conversation between Castellucci and the president of the Region Giovanni Toti on October 30, 2018. "Listen Gianni – says the governor – I spoke at length with Modiano (at the time extraordinary commissioner of Carige) about the matter of Carige and we would greet you with great favor… I don't know what effect I can have with Giorgetti. Obviously, as soon as you tell me that there is availability, I talk to Giorgetti and Salvini… The only thing we can do is ask the League and say guys we are exposing ourselves to save you a bank and get rid of broken c … ”. Toti explains to Castellucci that the help Modiano is asking for is not huge and Castellucci replies that "to sell it to shareholders it must be placed in a framework …". "Castellucci wants the guarantee to keep the concession – writes the investigating judge – And Toti tries not to miss the opportunity, taking care not to make promises". Another phone call between Castellucci and Modiano shows the willingness expressed by the former CEO to help save Carige in exchange for the "promises he tries to extort about the concession", writes the investigating judge. In this passage Modiano also refers to contacts initiated with politicians.

PHONE CALLS

On the phone Modiano reassures Castellucci: "We saw Garavaglia … we explained this to him, he obviously finds it very positive … he talked about it with Salvini, who talked about it with Di Maio to say: friends .. either put the public money or leave the Benetton put the money… ”. And Castellucci: "With the annexes and connected …?". Castellucci tries in every possible way to remain in the group, so much so that he tries to contact Andrea Boitani, independent director of Atlantia, to bring him to his side when he senses that the Benettons want to kill him. Once torpedoed by the group, Castellucci then tries to run as president of Alitalia . And he calls Joerg Michael Eberarth, CEO of Air Dolomiti, an airline controlled by Lufthansa, "to whom he proposes himself – writes the investigating judge – as president of Alitalia, referring to contacts with a 'minister'".

THE LEGAL NOTE OF CASTELLUCCI

"Amazement and concern for a measure that is not justified in itself and that one would not want to see ending up influencing a story, that of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, which has nothing to do with today's one". Thus the lawyers of Eng. Giovanni Castellucci in the field of investigation on sound-absorbing barriers. “It should be pointed out that these are two completely different events. The story concerns alleged planning and executive errors of some sound-absorbing barriers in the province of Genoa ”, underline the lawyers.

THE POSITION OF HIGHWAYS

On the story that emerged with the arrests this morning, Aspi defends himself by arguing that the kilometers affected by the problem are few compared to the entire network: "The investigation of the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office concerns a specific type of integrated noise barriers, called" Integautos ", present on approximately 60 of the 3,000 km of Autostrade per l'Italia's network ”. The company would have run for cover a few months ago: "All of these barriers have already been verified and secured with appropriate technical interventions between the end of 2019 and January 2020, as part of the general infrastructure assessment implemented by the company on the entire motorway network ". For 2021, the note continues, other works are scheduled, which envisage "the replacement of the barriers in the points most exposed to noise impact, planned from the second half of 2021. A subsequent third phase will complete the replacement on the other points" . The expense, explains Aspi, is approximately 170 million euros.

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Below is an excerpt from the article in the newspaper Domani directed by Stefano Feltri:

The harshest indictment against the family of Atlantia and Autostrade per l'Italia's main shareholders comes from Gianni Mion, their manager of reference for twenty years, and still at the helm of the Benetton holding. The interceptions of the new investigation

The Genoa financial police carried out six precautionary measures against six top managers and former top managers of Aspi: three of them, including the former managing director Castellucci, were under house arrest.

The investigations started from Ponte Morandi and came to discover an alleged fraud to the state on noise barriers.

According to the indictment, the managers were aware of the risks of failure and manufacturing defects, but they knowingly omitted the substitution provided by the agreement with the state such as reporting to the ministry.

On February 2, 2020 a Bocconi professor emeritus, Giorgio Brunetti, talks on the phone with Gianni Mion, who has always been the reference manager of the Benetton family, the one who administers Edition Holding, the safe of the Ponzano Veneto group to which all belongs the corporate chain that includes control of Atlantia and, in turn, that of Autostrade per l'Italia (Aspi). The two know each other, they published a book together a few years ago, Manager today, for Egea. They are confident enough to tell each other things that have never been heard in public.

Those are difficult days, the endless negotiations with the Conte government after the fall of the Morandi bridge in the summer of 2018 is getting worse. Even if the revocation of the concession seems excluded, other solutions are being studied. Much depends on how the economic and financial plan that establishes the future profitability of Autostrade and therefore the price at which the Benettons can sell their controlling stake (88 per cent) will be renegotiated.

The phone call is intercepted and contained in the investigation by the Genoa prosecutor's office which yesterday led to precautionary measures for various current and past Autostrade executives, including the former ad Giovanni Castellucci.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/casa-benetton-salotto-palombelli-le-affettuosita-di-gubitosi-tim-e-la-furbizia-di-bourla-pfizer/ on Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:00:47 +0000.