Visibilia, who is Luca Ruffino (who committed suicide and did not have a serious illness)
Career, entrepreneurial activities and political relations of Luca Ruffino, president and sole director of Visibilia Editore, who took his own life: he did not suffer from overt serious illnesses, according to Ansa
A suicide adds to the Visibilia story. That of Luca Giuseppe Reale Ruffino , sixty-year-old manager, president and sole director of Visibilia Editore , taken over by the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché last 18 October. Ruffino was the founder, president and chief executive officer of Sif Italia, a company for the administration and management of real estate assets, listed on Euronext Growth Milano, which managed over 80,000 properties, not only in the private sphere but also those of the public assets of the Lombard regional company alert.
LUCA RUFFINO: THE MILAN PROSECUTOR'S PROSECUTOR IS INVESTIGATING FOR INTIGATING SUICIDE
The manager killed himself in the night between Saturday and Sunday, shooting himself with a regularly registered weapon, in his home in the Lombard capital. To understand that there was something wrong in the manager's life was his partner, who last Saturday, after a phone call, had asked her son to come and see his father. It was his son Mirko who found the body in the bedroom, lifeless, just before midnight. The Milan prosecutor's office has opened a file for the crime of inciting suicide. The opening of the investigation is necessary to proceed with the investigations on the body, including the autopsy on the manager's body. The gesture, as reported by Ansa , was due to personal matters, but not to serious health problems. And the Agi agency underlined that Luca Giuseppe Reale Ruffino had never been investigated or heard by the prosecutors as a witness regarding the investigation into the Visibilia company.
NO RELEVANT HEALTH PROBLEMS FOR RUFFINO
Ansa adds – according to what appears in judicial circles – that the very first investigations carried out in the investigation into the suicide of Luca Ruffino, president of Visibilia Editore, did not appear that the manager, apart from minor health problems, suffered from overt serious illnesses. According to the first checks, in the last few days the entrepreneur would have appeared down in the dumps. Although he had appeared down in the dumps in recent days, there is currently no evidence that Luca Ruffino, president of Visibilia Editore, who committed suicide on Saturday evening in Milan, suffered from full-blown and diagnosed mental health problems, the news agency learned from sources judicial. At the moment there would be no doubt that it was a voluntary gesture.
RUFFINO'S MESSAGES TO THE FAMILY
The manager would have left several notes with some communications for the family, starting with his sons Mirko and Andrea, and for his collaborators, to whom he would communicate his displeasure for the pain his gesture will cause them but does not mention what caused it driven to kill himself . On one of the notes, Ruffino would explain that he had chosen to commit suicide in his Milanese home in via Spadolini, and not in his offices, so as not to upset colleagues and employees. In the papers left on his desk there are no references to the legal case involving the company he took over ten months ago.
RUFFINO'S WORK IN VISIBILIA EDITOR
Last Thursday Ruffino took part for the last time in a meeting of the Board of Directors of Visibilia Editore. The manager had acquired the company from Daniela Santanchè with a large injection of capital, around one million euros, saving them from financial collapse. Minister Santanchè and the latter's partner, Dimitri Kunz, remain partners in the publishing company. Ruffino was busy dealing with the company's main creditors, was conducting negotiations with the Revenue Agency for a tax repayment plan and had also paid the severance pay and some arrears to Federica Bottiglione , the employee who had sued because she allegedly worked while without her knowledge she had been laid off at zero hours. In his last messages written shortly before committing suicide there would be no reference to the investigation involving the minister Santanché, among other things Ruffino is neither under investigation nor object of investigation by the investigators.
RUFFINO: "DANIELA SANTANCHÉ 1.5 MILLION EUROS"
“Daniela Santanchè owes us 1.5 million and for this reason she has also pledged her home. I have nothing to do with her otherwise and we're sorting out the things we found here." Ruffino himself said it in recent days to Repubblica, explaining why he had decided to save the minister's company from bankruptcy. “It was an entrepreneurial choice, I had been looking at Visibilia for several years and saw its potential – said Ruffino -. When we decided to enter the corporate structure, the stock market capitalization was 300,000 euros. There is confusion between the gigantic debt position that Santanchè has towards the whole world and the position of the holding company, of which I am president. The holding only owes 150,000 euros to the Revenue Agency, which we are paying. Santanchè, on the other hand, is my debtor, we owe her an important sum, 1.5 million, which she is paying off in monthly installments of 50,000 euros".
RUFFINO'S RELATIONS WITH POLITICS
Politics occupied an important place in Ruffino's life. In 2000 he had been the UDC's candidate for the regional elections in Lombardy, he had then become the party's Milanese secretary, a role for which he had been a commissioner for having supported the PDL candidate Guido Podestà in the elections of the Province of Milan. Ruffino had also played a role within the PDL: he had also been a member of the Lombardy regional coordination. Over the years he had maintained excellent relations with leading exponents of the Italian centre-right, in particular with the Brothers of Italy. In 2010 he had supported the electoral campaign in the regional elections of Romano La Russa, today regional councilor for security in Lombardy.
THE JUDICIAL EVENTS (ENDED WITH AN ABSOLUTION) AS A SECRETARY OF THE UDC
In 2012, as secretary of the UDC, he ended up on trial together with Marco Osnato , now FdI deputy but at the time city councilor of the Pdl in Milan and manager of Aler (Lombardy public housing company), and Romano La Russa , brother of the president of the Senate, Lombard Security Councilor at the time, for an affair involving funding for the latter's electoral campaign and contracts for the institute that manages social housing in Milan. Ruffino had been investigated for 10,000 euros in funding for the printing of posters and electoral material for the Osnato and La Russa campaigns. The story ended with an acquittal with full formula for all the suspects because "the fact does not exist". "A nightmare that lasted seven years, acquitted of an absurd crime, I was in the media grinder of the Formigoni era, during which an imaginative charge forced me to shame", commented Ruffino in 2018, when the Cassation had acquitted him with full formula.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/visibilia-luca-ruffino-manager-suicidio-salute/ on Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:03:32 +0000.