Toti, Spinelli, Signorini and the port of Genoa. What is not said (also about the Sid case)
Is there also a Sid case (Maritime State Property Information System) on the side of the shed on the port of Genoa? Francis Walsingham's letter
Dear director,
I'm writing to you because I found the coverage offered by Start regarding that ugly Ligurian affair very interesting. I particularly appreciated how you contributed (and that I myself contributed ) to bringing to light not only the "system" whose existence is theorized by the Prosecutor's Office, but also the protagonists.
As you underlined on Start , everything revolves around the thirty-year extension for the Bulk Terminal. «A fraudulent resolution», defines it as Giorgio Carozzi, appointed by the mayor Marco Bucci within the body, as he vents on the telephone unaware of being intercepted. The coach – we read today in the Sole 24 Ore – is one of those who immediately reported the forcing of that extension then obtained by Spinelli in December 2021. "So many took the cue that they did everything to get it through", he says, «it's shocking from every point of view. Thirty years of concession to Spinelli, putting his face, his credibility, even Bucci moving in support." An operation that would have done nothing other than implement Spinelli's business: «When the concession increases», Carozzi continues in the interception which I read about in the Confindustria newspaper, «this one (Spinelli, ed. ) gets from ten to fifty million Plus, are we kidding?".
Genoa prosecutors hypothesize that the entrepreneur – together with his son Roberto, who however said he did not share his father's choice to "pay money to politics" – gave around 74 thousand euros in funding to Toti, with the aim of obtaining the extension for the bulk terminal, facilitate urban planning practices for the Punta dell'Olmo complex in Celle Ligure, be assigned the port spaces of the former Carbonile Itar, the Carbonile Levante and a state-owned area used by the Autostrade concessionaire. Added to this are Spinelli's alleged corruptions towards Paolo Emilio Signorini, the former president of the Port Authority.
But – as you would say – it seems that Spinelli wants to "cojore" the magistrates and the press given that yesterday, according to the unanimous reports of the newspapers, he essentially said: Toti made fun of me, he promised me and he didn't give. Bah. A nice way of saying that I gave without receiving anything. Aldo is very clever.
However, in my opinion there is a "systemic" side of the whole affair that remains uncovered: are we really sure that, just as I wrote above, that "bad affair" is really "all Ligurian"?
Let me explain: we are in 2024. Soon, with 5G, a driver sitting at an operations center in Tokyo will be able to remotely drive a truck traveling along a Norwegian highway; an American doctor will be able to remotely control a robot and perform an open heart operation in Angola.
Does it make sense, given the pervasiveness of technology, to treat certain illegal businesses that are so ramified, structured and complex as an expression of local potentates? Let me explain myself even better so you will understand what I am getting at: are there really things, in 2024, that happen in Genoa, the main port in the Mediterranean, without anyone in Rome becoming suspicious? A corollary question would also be this: but regarding the former Bankitalia Signorini – placed at the top of the Port Authority and then also at the listed Iren – it occurred to no one in Genoa whether he was really the most suitable personality given what the news in previous years they had written about him for some of his – how can I put it? – passions ?
But let's leave it aside and get back to the question I wanted to talk to you about. As you know, I have worked all my life in the Services and for some years in close contact with Washington circles: glimpsing plots, relationships, but also cause-effect relationships is in my mindset . Therefore, all those questions that I have written up to this point last night I cutely posed to a friend – an expert in the field who until very recently worked in the port sector -, appropriately invited home for a nice dinner. As always happens, one rumor leads to another and, speaking of current affairs, the discussion invariably turned to the alleged Ligurian thefts that annoyed Aponte so much.
We talked about the former owner of Genoa (by the way: do you want to know something delicious that he revealed to me at the dessert? Always and until a few years ago if you weren't a Genoa in the port you practically couldn't even work there…), about the connections between entrepreneurship and politics, rendezvous at anchor on yachts without cell phones on board… and that's when I started to ask: can you really move so much wealth, can you maneuver an economic engine like that of the port of Genoa at will, without having to Rome, no one notices anything?
And so it emerged that the "Zeneisi" (Genoese) port authorities had always been rather stingy with communications with Rome, often forgetting to fill in the Sid, the information system of maritime state property.
You will object here, as I did: we are in Italy, imagine if there is a national online platform, which does not close the data in local silos and is visible to everyone, when to stay on topic we still have to understand how many kilometers of coastline are given to the seaside resorts. Well, apparently the site exists ( I'll leave the site to you so you can play around with it ) and it's a little gem that theoretically allows anyone to be constantly updated on the concessions that apply to goods that, let's not forget, are public.
My friend, who knows about these things, told me that the Sid which is improved every year in terms of functionality seems to be almost completely empty. A sort of desert cathedral in the information age. In short, the Port Authority technicians would never have transmitted the concessionaires' data to the IT system of the Ministry of Infrastructure: who they are, how much space they occupy and how much they pay. Now, if it were true, this raises several questions: first of all, if Genoa doesn't speak, how come Rome doesn't ask? If I, a taxpayer, forget to fill out my tax return, the IRS will swoop down on me like a bird of prey, right?
One of two things: either no one controls, or everyone knew. Tertium non datur , say those who went to high school. Or maybe yes because there could be a third case: the Sid could be empty. Do not contain any data from any port. And the Genoa system could concern all the cities that have an outlet to the sea.
Not being able to sleep, I also took a look at the Port of Genoa website, in the part relating to the publication of concession documents : what do you think? Up-to-date and lively as you would expect from a busy and busy port?
My friend told me that the Genoese love their port, they have always identified with those docks, young people proudly remember their "camalli" (dockers) grandparents. There are also some dialect songs, my friend told me, that recall the glories of the past (one goes like this: ea niätri figgieu ne divan fortûnae because inte that port louava our poae nisciûn o peu smentiî ch'a l'ëa propio so but how much penn-a òua a pä all 'na foua, or I bring önô de Zena for how many or the ëa or pan think and instead òua nisciûn gh'ha ciû ûn doman , translatable into: And we children were said to be lucky because in that port our father worked no one can deny that it was exactly like that but how much pain now it all seems like a fairy tale, the port honor of Genoa for those who were bread think instead now no one has a tomorrow anymore). Is it possible that the Genoese don't have the right to greater transparency? And with them all the Italians?
I leave you with all these doubts and I dive back into reading the newspapers (since as a pensioner it is one of the few activities I have left because the gym bores me).
Your,
Francis
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/toti-spinelli-signorini-e-il-porto-di-genova-cosa-non-si-dice-anche-sul-caso-sid/ on Tue, 14 May 2024 06:28:26 +0000.