What Cyberealm chaired by Gasparri does (pinned by Report)
Report (Rai3) revealed that Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri, vice-president of the Senate until last week, presides over the cybersecurity company Cyberealm, a position never declared to Parliament. Israeli-owned company facts, names and numbers. And Gasparri's version
Former vice president of the Senate Maurizio Gasparri is president of Cyberealm srl, a cybersecurity company with Israeli ties, of which the Senate was not informed.
This is the revelation that emerged from the previews of the next episode of Report , the Rai3 broadcast hosted by Sigfrido Ranucci.
Since 2021, Gasparri has held the role of president of Cyberealm srl, a Milan-based company that deals with cybersecurity and technologies based on artificial intelligence, as the company itself states on its social profile. The company has direct and indirect relations with the State, which appears as a potential customer of the company.
However, the Forzista senator never declared his assignment to the Palazzo Madama offices, as he was required to do.
Meanwhile, just last week Maurizio Gasparri left the post of vice president of the Senate to take on that of group leader of Forza Italia in the Senate, replaced by his party colleague Licia Ronzulli, group leader of Forza Italia until last Monday and now elected vice president of Palazzo Madama.
But to color the story, as underlined by the preview of the report of Ranucci's broadcast on Rai3, also Cyberealm's ties with Israel.
In the episode of Report which will be broadcast on Sunday evening 26 November, it is specified that the owner of the company is the Italian-Israeli Leone Ouazana, long-time director of institutional relations at Telit (Gasparri was Minister of Telecommunications precisely in the years in which he State sold the company, the only Italian manufacturer of mobile phones) and which today carries out activities of national interest in his country.
Here are all the details on the top management and business of Cyberealm srl.
WHAT CYBEREALM SRL PRESIDED BY GASPARRI DOES
Based in Milan, in Largo Guido Donegani, Cyberealm Srl was founded in 2020. As stated on its Linkedin profile , the Cyberealm group “offers a diversified portfolio of cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions, technologies based on artificial intelligence. We provide technology-driven solutions and end-to-end services, which include the development and integration of intelligence platforms and cyber solutions. Comprised of global experts with extensive field experience in the Israeli cyber ecosystem and intelligence community, Cyberealm Cyber Solutions covers the entire range of cyber-intelligence related products and services.” “Our cutting-edge technologies – it continues – include cyber threat intelligence services, cyber training, the creation of a Security Operation Center (SOC) and managed security services (MSSP), as well as endpoint security and a collection of analysis and investigation tools".
Bizarre, however, that under the wording "Website", instead of inserting the Cyberalm link, the URL of another company , Atlantica , appears, but we will return to this later. 
THE OWNERSHIP
The share capital, equal to 10 thousand euros, is entirely owned by the Italian-Israeli Leone Ouazana, who told Report that he conducts "fairly sensitive activities dedicated to Israel".
As reported by La Notizia , Leone Ouzana with domicile in Tel Aviv (Israel) owner and founder in 2020 of the srl connected to other companies in the telecommunications sector (Melcom srl with headquarters in via Prato della Signora in Rome) and consultancy in information technologies (Atlantica Cyber Security, another limited company with headquarters in the central Via Barberini also in the capital).
But as revealed in the preview of the report , Report discovered that behind Cyberealm there was “another Israeli entrepreneur, very linked to Ouazana. This is Oozi Cats, former administrator of Telit Italia, until 2017 when he was overwhelmed by a scandal".
From the Chamber of Commerce certificate of the Cyberealm srl company, we can read that its main activity is the acquisition and holding of company shares (holding). As Report also points out, it is "a corporate box that holds shares in other companies specialized in the field of cybersecurity and defense against hacker attacks". In fact, the Chamber of Commerce certificate shows that the company has zero employees.
THE CYBEREALM BOARD PRESIDED BY MAURIZIO GASPARRI
The board of directors is made up of the owner of the company and sole director, Leone Ouazana, the director Nicola Crispino and Maurizio Gasparri, in the role of president.
THE NUMBERS OF THE LAST TWO YEARS
The company closed the 2022 financial year in profit: the profit amounted to 840 thousand euros, a marked increase compared to the previous year's loss of 13 thousand euros. “This profit is related to the purchase and sale of shareholdings that the company carried out during the year” we read in the filed financial statement report. The meeting, chaired by the sole shareholder Leone Ouazana, decided to allocate half of the profit (400 thousand euros) to the dividend in favor of the aforementioned.
Net financial debt is equal to 150 thousand euros, decreasing (less debt) compared to the previous year (552 thousand euros). During 2022, the company made investments in intangible and tangible assets for a total amount of 185 thousand euros (increasing compared to 51 thousand euros in 2021).
The company, classified as a micro enterprise, does not state the value of production in the income statement, but records income from investments in associated companies amounting to 1.1 million euros in 2022.
THE PROCEEDS RELATED TO THE SALE OF ATLANTICA DIGITAL SPA
And here we return to Atlantica Spa, mentioned at the beginning. In Cyberealm's Linkedin profile, Atlantica's URL corresponds to the website box. As already mentioned, if you search online for Cyberealm srl, a website associated with the Milanese company does not appear among the search results.
That the financial proceeds from equity investments recorded in 2022 by Cyberealm correspond to the sale of Atlantica to Smart 4 Engineering?
In June 2022 Smart 4 Engineering, a French private equity vehicle with an exclusive ICT vocation , which invests in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, acquired 100% of Atlantica Digital SpA – from Pierre Levy, Fabrizio Del Nero, In-Holding SpA , CFN Srl and Fabio and Niccolò Cappon – and a participation in the subsidiary Atlantica Cybersecurity Srl by Cyberealm Srl
This is what we read on the website of the Pedersoli law firm which assisted Smart 4 Engineering in the operation. Also on this site, we inform you that Cyberealm was assisted by Rödl & Partners with senior associate Sebastiano Iacono. TONicola Crispino also works in Rödl & Partners as At the moment, we are unable to ascertain that the latter is the same Nicola Crispino, member of the Cyberealm board of directors, but the homonymy and the related companies certainly lead in that direction.
RELATIONSHIPS (DIRECT AND INDIRECT) WITH THE STATE
Finally, let's return to the direct and indirect relationships of Cyberealm srl with the State, which could also appear as a potential customer.
As can be seen from the Customs Agency website, last 12 July the company chaired by Gasparri participated as a "stakeholder" in the presentation of a software platform for data analysis at the Customs Agency headquarters in Rome. “And among the tasks assigned by the statute to Gasparri – former minister and until yesterday vice-president of the Senate – there is precisely that of "verifying the potential interest of public and private operators in the acquisition of these services". That is, to "sponsor" the company with the public administration" Il Fatto Quotidiano underlined yesterday.
GASPARRI'S ROLE IN CYBEREALM
But Senator Gasparri did not declare this position to Parliament. As he himself declared to Report , he does not hold "any operational role, the president gives opinions, advice, which can be strategic choices".
Until last week, Gasparri held the role of vice president of the Senate, he is now group leader of Forza Italia at Palazzo Madama, as well as a member of the Rai Supervision and Defense commission. But he made no mention to Parliament of his role as president of Cyberealm Srl. To Report , the Forzista senator justifies himself by explaining that the law provides that the parliamentarian must indicate the functions of director or auditor in a company, not that of president.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/cosa-fa-cyberealm-presieduta-da-gasparri-pizzicato-da-report/ on Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:56:49 +0000.