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Galli sausage, Arcuri in disguise and Draghi revered (also by Father Spadaro)

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Galli sausage, Arcuri in disguise and Draghi revered (also by Father Spadaro)

Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start, not only on Draghi and Arcuri

THE INTERGROUP ACCORDING TO THE REFORMIST

THE PRIORITIES OF THE ZANDA DEMOCRAT

DRAGONIAN CIVILIZATION

DRAGON BATHROOMS

THE DRAGONS OF FRANCO

THE 5 LITTLE DRAGON STARS

COUNT TRUE ANTI DRAGONS

MASKED ARCURI

THE VARIABLE VARIATIONS OF PROF. GALLI ( SACK )

MASKS & VARIANTS

VENDOLIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM

QUISQULIE & PINZILLACCHERE

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EXCERPT FROM AN ARTICLE FROM CORRIERE DELLA SERA ON MASKS, BENOTTI AND ARCURI:

The 72 million euros collected and divided by the mediators of a maxi-supply of anti-Covid masks from China to Italy, in the first dramatic times of the emergency, were the result of "a lucrative occult pact with a public administration" made by a "business committee" formed on that occasion and still active today. For this reason, the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and the judge of the preliminary investigation ordered the preventive seizure of movable and immovable property amounting to approximately 70 million against eight suspects: these are bank current accounts, individuals and companies, houses, a boat bought for 770,000 euros, a 500,000 Harley Davidson motorcycle, luxury watches Rolex, Daytona and other brands.

The best-known name among the investigated is that of Mario Benotti, a Rai journalist on leave but above all, the prosecutors note, "a politically exposed person for having already been a consultant to the presidency of the Council of Ministers and various ministries, with significant entries in the world of politics and senior banking management ". The Milanese entrepreneur Andrea Tommasi and the Ecuadorian Jorge Solis San Andres move with him. It is they, last spring, who organized the import of around 800 million masks paid for over a billion euros, each with a specific role; Solis has contacts with Chinese producers, Tommasi organizes shipping and distribution logistics, while Benotti is the access key to those who have to buy and pay: the office of the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency led by Domenico Arcuri.

An "interposition activity based on the personal relationship" between Benotti and Arcuri, reconstructed the deputy prosecutor Paolo Ielo and the substitutes Gennaro Varone and Fabrizio Tucci, also demonstrated by the telephone records: 1,280 "daily contacts" between February and April 2020 (messages, calls with and unanswered, failed attempts). Then, from 7 May, nothing more. So much so that Benotti confides to an interlocutor the fear that Arcuri has cut off relations because of something that "is about to hit us".

The alleged offense is trafficking in illicit influences: Benotti and co-investigators were paid (by Chinese suppliers, according to the reconstruction of the Guardia di Finanza investigators) in exchange for "an access privilege, overcoming the equal opportunity filter, through the secret corridor of a special relationship ": that between Benotti and Arcuri," necessary passepartout "which however does not appear in the list of suspects. After having hypothesized the crime of corruption against the commissioner, the prosecutors asked for dismissal because "at present there is no evidence that the acts of the commissioner structure were carried out against payment of consideration". The investigating judge has yet to decide, but yesterday the Arcuri press office announced that from the investigation that resulted in the seizure of assets "it is clear that the commissioner structure and the commissioner, unrelated to the investigations, were subject to illegal exploitation by the suspects »To obtain« compensation not due from manufacturing companies ».

Arcuri ensures maximum collaboration with the investigators and has asked his lawyers to evaluate the possibility of forming an offended party. In the indictment of the Prosecutor's Office, however, it is emphasized that the "affairs committee" was able to benefit from "a certain influence on the commissioner structure, which does not appear interested in establishing its own relationship with Chinese suppliers or in validating an autonomous organizational path for certifications and transport, preferring to rely on improvised freelancers, eager to speculate on the epidemic ». And as proof of this they cite an interception in November in which Tommasi (recipient of the largest share of the 72 million) boasts on the phone: "I was the largest supplier of masks in Italy, we sold 925 million to the Italian government , the only ones to have certified masks in place and so on. Now, in this phase of desperation, Commissioner Arcuri asked me to find his gloves because there is nothing around… ».

The investigation also continues to ascertain any boastfulness, since even Jorge Solis, on 27 October, quoted the commissioner: "So listen to me, that you are good, to get to Arcuri … Arcuri knows our group … with your friend Arcuri at eyes closed buy you. Because we have given… credit for 400 million to Italy, which nobody, nobody has. And they paid for everything ». At stake, according to the indictment, there are new business related to "rapid swabs, surgical gloves and new supplies of masks", while Solis "is trying to act as mediator for the purchase of a machine by the Gemelli Hospital in Rome". In the autumn, Solis follows the evolution of the situation and, the prosecutors write, it is "singular, how gruesome, the expectation that in November it" explodes "(that is, there is a national lockdown), because lucrative business is expected from this".

According to the Prosecutor "the greed and unscrupulousness of the protagonists of this affair emerges clearly", while Benotti's lawyers define the seizure carried out yesterday "an inexplicable measure that represents a grave injustice, which we will challenge in all offices".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/galli-arcuri-draghi-spadaro/ on Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:14:40 +0000.