What have Arnault and AC Milan done?
Milan-Arnault, the phantom negotiation ends in the prosecutor's office. All the details revealed by the newspaper Repubblica in the Football and Finance article
A scam attempt would have been carried out using the names of Bernard Arnault – king of luxury and CEO of the multinational LVMH – and of Milan. This was reported by La Repubblica , explaining that the investigators are evaluating a hypothesis of crime against the financial mediator DV, 62, from Brescia, a former bank official. The Milan prosecutor is investigating the case.
The story – writes the newspaper – starts from afar and develops pre and post pandemic. Arnault's name was linked to Milan for the first time in July 2018. Despite the denials, rumors about the new stadium at San Siro and the adjoining center circulated with credibility in the fashion circles in Milan and New York. commercial, to be massively dedicated to luxury brands.
It was Arnault himself who cooled the hopes of the Milan fans in January 2020, on the occasion of theLvmh annual report. Then, during the pandemic, the global financial crisis rekindled rumors about the affair, but without anything concrete.
In the meantime, however, during the Coronavirus emergency, the yellow was about to experience its most ambiguous phase, which would have ended up on the table of the Milanese Public Prosecutor's Office. Already in the summer of 2019, the fastest to ride the wave of news of a possible interest by Arnault for the Rossoneri club was the Brescia intermediary DV
Who, while working on financing a large real estate project in a Swiss estate in the Ticino area, had obtained part of the shares in the contracting company also thanks to an unwritten guarantee, which increased its prestige: he had declared himself a trusted man in Italy of Bernard Arnault and his privileged interlocutor in the negotiations for the acquisition of Milan.
From the height of this condition, he assured, no one better than him would have been able to negotiate with the Anglo-American Elliott fund of the Singer family, which had collected Milan from the defaulting Yonghong Li, in whose hands Silvio Berlusconi had left him in April 2017 .
DV claimed to have been commissioned by Arnault himself for the most operational part of the project: setting up the Italian team that would have to manage the future French Milan, from the general manager to the head of international relations, from the sports director to the legal office.
Hence the potential general manager, a well-known company executive with various experiences in top-level football, had convinced him to form the team as soon as possible, which had in fact consolidated quickly and was made up of other leading professionals. of Italian football.
The team meetings began immediately, with the presentation of the hypothetical plans for the transfer market and for the new stadium and with the entry on the scene of new figures. The two most regular had become AA, a business partner of DV, and a financial consultant always remained only a voice on the phone or an e-mail box with the transalpine name: the self-styled Christiane Valier.
Over time, there was no lack of growing perplexities from some members of the team, but a series of reassurance emails from apparently true addresses (including the one in which the manager of an important international bank endorsed the guarantees of the intermediary) helped dispel doubts.
Furthermore, an elusive Arnault had announced the imminent agreement from his personal e-mail address and set the decisive appointment, which would be held as soon as possible in France or England.
The meeting, however, never took place, and last summer the real right hand of Bernard Arnault, the general manager of LVMH Antonio Belloni, put an end to the "ghost negotiation" , responding in a succinct way from the e-mail address ( this yes authentic) to the e-mail full of doubts from the Italian team, increasingly discouraged: «I don't know any of the people you talk about».
This is how the case ended in the Milanese prosecutor's office in 2021. Who has now entrusted the checks to the Carabinieri and is evaluating the hypothesis of a scam attempt.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-hanno-combinato-arnault-e-il-milan/ on Thu, 20 May 2021 09:55:21 +0000.