Santanché defends himself in Berlusconi style by attacking Carlo De Benedetti’s Tomorrow

5 July 20233 years babelfish

What the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè, said, speaking in the Senate.

The best defense is offense. This seems to be the line of conduct chosen by the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè, speaking in the Senate. Frontal attack not only on the Rai Report broadcast conducted by Sigfrido Ranucci but also and above all on Carlo De Benedetti's newspaper Domani (below an extract from today's article in Domani ).

Here are facts, words and insights.

Complete government in the Senate Chamber for the information of Minister Daniela Santanché. Apart from Prime Minister Meloni, who is committed, almost all the ministers are present in Warsaw, starting with the deputy prime ministers Tajani and Salvini. Even the opposition banks are fully booked.

Here are some of the salient phrases of Minister Santanché:

"I hope you will acknowledge that in the face of the request of some opposition groups and I mean some and not all, I immediately gave the willingness to report what someone considers also considered excessive".

"I affirm on my honor that I have not been reached by any notice of guarantee and that indeed to exclude it I asked my lawyers to verify that there were no doubts".

– “I affirm on my honor that I have not been reached by any notice of guarantee and that in order to exclude it, I asked my lawyers to verify that there were no doubts”.

"I preferred not to let the government weigh the consequences of a campaign of real hatred against me".

“A political instrumentalization is taking place against me. I'm here to defend my honor and that of my son. I'm here because of the respect it owes this place and the citizens we represent."

"Tomorrow publishes things without citing the sources. It's good for both: either this newspaper lies knowing it is lying or it chooses this day, the day of my intervention for a classic ambush to hit a government minister against whom it rails every day ”.

Today I'm the one who has to ask for answers after reading Tomorrow this morning, someone should give them to me. I'll answer any questions, don't get nervous. Is it normal for a minister to read that she is under investigation while he is about to speak in the Senate? Is it normal that a journalist can write classified things unknown to the interested party and his lawyers? I guess the newspaper has sold a few more things”.

From the press come "dirty and disgusting practices". The Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché said this during the briefing in the Senate Hall, underlining that "if it weren't for the respect I have for this hall after the treacherous exit of Tomorrow, I would end my speech here but, waiting for a sign from all my colleagues, I will try to pick up the thread of my speech".

“I thank the ministers and the prime minister for their solidarity”.

“I have been doing business since I was 25, I left Cuneo with the strength of my work relying only on myself, I have achieved important entrepreneurial successes, I am proud to have given work to so many people. I invested in entertainment advertising and then publishing. I was able to write successful pages”.

"I have never appropriated anything that does not belong to me, I have never abused my top positions in companies, I challenge anyone to prove otherwise".

“I have resorted to tools made available to all companies by the laws still in force. My restructuring project is much more virtuous than that of other companies in the same conditions. Being an entrepreneur and also a politician does not mean that he is prohibited from resorting to the laws in force, I have not had favoritism but neither should there be an undue ad personam penalisation”.

“I want to clarify immediately that the person my detractors draw on as a great accuser, unlike what is reported on television and in other media, is not a small saver but according to the news that he himself has disclosed, he is a sort of financier who moved before in London then in Switzerland and in Montecarlo and now resides in the Bahamas”.

“I have never had any control over the organic food sector as many media have reported. I have done business in the world of advertising, publishing, and entertainment and have never exceeded 5% of my stake”.

"In 2010 the organic sector group (which we are talking about ed) was taken not by me but by the father of my son with whom I no longer had any ties and in any case with his intervention the workers received 12 months' pay".

"From Ki group srl I collected 27 thousand gross euros in three years, an average of 9 thousand euros a year for the previous years, between 2014 and 2018 in which the company made positive operating margins, I received from the parent company an annual gross value of about 100,000 euros".

“For 30 years no one from my group has ever accused me of anything. Today my collaborators will be able to carry on the company, since I am a minority shareholder. I've never had favoritism and I've never looked for them."

"For this complex restructuring operation" of the 4 Visibilia companies "I made my assets available, for all of this I almost expected applause and I challenge anyone to point me to a large number of people who pledge all their assets to save the companies" .

“There was a part-time employee inside Visibilia spa. I was accused of having used the benefits of the employee who was on the layoffs at zero hours. Faced with the belated objection by the employee, while deeming her information unfounded and being certain that she never set foot in Visibila, the company remedied the situation considering her on duty without any request having been received from the responsible bodies and before the media affair. No other employee raised questions about layoffs. The television broadcast (Report ed) thought it had a non-bomb news instead it was non-news".

“What remains in the end: notes of color on my clothing, for houses, for my friendships, for the nicknames that have been given to me. They also erroneously accused me of having received fines for illegal parking when the fines were from the carabinieri to whom I had loaned my car to give up a spare. I don't have any fines to pay."

"I'm happy and I'm stopping here for love of country, for the rest if I've made mistakes I've already paid, animated by a single solid certainty: the Italian judicial bodies, starting from the bankruptcy ones, work well beyond the perhaps too long times ”.

START MAGAZINE'S INSIGHTS ON THE SANTANCHE' CASE:

Because in Libero di Feltri they are embarrassed about Santanché

Visibilia, Santanché, Banca Finnat and the mysteries of the Negma fund

Ranucci's report does not send Santanché's Visibilia into raptures

Not only Visibilia by Santanché, what does the Negma Arabic background combine?

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EXTRACT FROM THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE CRITICIZED TOMORROW BY MINISTER SANTANCHE' IN THE SENATE HALL:

More than tourism, Daniela Santanché is the debt minister. To such an extent that to guarantee the creditors he had to tie up the luxurious villa in the center of Milan valued at 6 million euros, as told by Domani. Huge debts all accounted for in the documents that led to the signing of a bond on the house as a guarantee for the debt restructuring plan presented to the Milan court, a timely solution to dribble the injunction served by the same Milan court on 3 May 2023 .

The Minister of Tourism has been under investigation for some time in the bankruptcy investigation conducted by the Milan prosecutor's office on companies in the Visibilia galaxy. She is not alone, with her there is a group of people who have had different roles in the management of companies. “It is false that I am being investigated. The file is open to model 45, therefore without suspects ». Here is Santanchè's defense in November 2022 when some newspapers had broken the news. In reality, it appears from Domani that the pool that deals with corporate crimes (prosecutors Maria Gravina and Roberto Fontana) had only kept the registration secret.

It is a common method envisaged by the code of criminal procedure in the event that "there are specific needs relating to the investigation activity". For this reason, the lawyers were not aware of any criminal proceedings concerning their client. At the time, the registration concerned only the crime of bankruptcy. Over time, however, a second trend has also emerged, false accounting, which according to the Corriere, in last November's article, is among the crimes charged against the minister.

[…] It is not certain whether the Pd and 5 Stars will present a motion of no confidence. Of course they will evaluate what to do after the intervention of the minister: if it is not convincing they will look for a shared solution to ask for her resignation. Among the most relevant documents for understanding the state of insolvency of the minister of the Meloni government are the so-called "assignment contracts" stipulated between Santanchè and some creditors.

The date is June 30, the minister had been in office for eight months. With the deed, the entrepreneur and politician assumes the debt of the company Visibilia Srl to guarantee the companies that ask for the return of the money. In the first of these agreements, Santanchè "bears" the debt of Visibilia srl ("as it holds 95 percent of the shares") to Visibilia Editore, in which the minister has never held office. «Visiblia srl has no resources», it is written in the deed, «so that the necessary resources will be made available by Santanchè».

Even placing the constraint on the million-dollar villa, linked to compliance with the repayment plan established between the two Visibilias: 1.9 million euros, to be repaid in installments until 2025. While Visibilia Editrice has not attempted the injunction, on the contrary they have made the companies that acquired the receivables claimed by Intesa San Paolo from Visibilia Srl.

The decree of the judge of the civil court of Milan is dated 3 May 2023: it requires the company to pay "4.56 million euros" and the "guarantor", i.e. the minister, "to pay 2.24 million euros" . In the end, the balance and excerpt agreement with the Kerdos company (it had acquired the credits claimed by Intesa) provides for a total payment of 1.2 million to be paid within 90 days. Debts that Visibilia had contracted with Intesa San Paolo between 2015 and 2019: credit lines granted and not fully compensated by Santanchè and an "unsecured loan" of 3.5 million euros.

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EXTRACT OF AN ARTICLE FROM THE NEWSPAPER LA STAMPA:

The day of the "Pythoness" has arrived. After the Report case, the journalistic and judicial investigations that overwhelmed it, at 3 pm the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè will report to the Senate. There are no questions, just information prepared by the lawyers. And there are many points that the senator of the Brothers of Italy must (or should) clarify.

The investigations of the Gdf

She has always denied, but is being investigated for fraudulent bankruptcy and false accounting in a file on Visibilia. A fact that Santanchè should admit to knowing given that, only after the intervention of the prosecutor who asked for the bankruptcy of her companies, did the minister begin to pay off the debts accumulated for years.

Visibility in liquidation

To save even the last company in the group, and avoid bankruptcy charges, Santanchè proposed a "tax settlement" to the Revenue Agency to spread the 1.2 million euro debt with the tax authorities over ten years.

And it undertook to pay the other creditors […]. The prosecution consultant calculated that, if he had written down goodwill and doubtful credits, at the end of 2022 the company would have presented "negative equity equal to -7. 894.467 euros». Where will he find all the money?

The crisis of Ki Group

Santanchè resigned as president in June 2020. But between 2018 and 2019 the company accumulated debts of 8 million euros […]. The minister will have to clarify if she has paid them. And if he has paid salaries and severance pay […] of the employees […].

Who is behind Negma?

Visibilia and Ki Group were rescued by a convertible bond loan from the UAE fund Negma. Millions of euros that […] would also have been pocketed by Santanchè, while the operation – the minority shareholders denounce – sank the stock. Who is behind the fund? What is known is that the lawsuits, which arrived some time ago on the Milanotoday site, both on behalf of Visibilia and on behalf of Negma, were signed by the same lawyer: the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa.

State debtor?

The Democratic Party presented a question on the 2.7 million that in 2021 Ki Group would have received from Invitalia (a company owned by the Ministry of Economy) as aid for the Covid emergency. Money that the company would never have repaid, however.

Employee allegations

Then there is the chapter of the employee on zero-hour layoffs who, between March 2020 and November 2021, the lawyers accuse, would have continued to work for Visibilia.

Is it true that between 2018 and 2021 the worker, paid by the Senate, also worked as an "assistant" to Senators Santanchè and then La Russa?

Maseratis and apartments

With the money from Visibilia, already heavily in debt, Santanchè allegedly rented an apartment in the Pantheon and another in Milan (for 100,000 euros a year), as well as paying for the leasing of a Maserati with which he whizzed around the city accumulating fines […]

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/santanche-si-difende-berlusconianamente-attaccando-il-domani-di-carlo-de-benedetti/ on Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:24:42 +0000.