Illegal financing, for Emiliano a one-year prison sentence is requested. The Apulian president: “I trust in justice”

Illegal financing, for Emiliano a one-year prison sentence is requested.  The Apulian president: "I trust in justice"

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A year’s imprisonment has been requested by the Turin prosecutor’s office for the Apulian governor Michele Emiliano and for his former chief of staff (now a member of the Democratic Party) Claudius Stefanazziin relation to the alleged illegal financing received from two Apulian entrepreneurs for the 2017 Democratic Party primary election campaign. At the time, Emiliano was a candidate for the national secretariat together with Matthew Renzi (later elected) e Andrew Orlando.

“Remove Emiliano’s name from the invoice”: the background of the campaign for the pd primaries in the trial in Turin


According to the indictment, the businessman from Bari Vito Ladisa and the Foggiano James Messia (for which an eight-month sentence was requested) would have paid two invoices on Emiliano’s behalf, for 63,000 euros for Ladisa and 24,000 for Mescia, to the Turin company Eggerswho had taken care of communication during the electoral campaign.

“I have never financed Emiliano, not even I supported him in the Pd primaries”: Ladisa denies the accusation’s hypothesis in the Turin trial



The two entrepreneurs have always stated that those bills were paid in relation to services rendered by Eggers to their companies and that they have never financed the governor either directly or indirectly.

Illegal financing for the Pd primaries, the witness: “They asked that Emiliano not pay me”



Emiliano’s defense, for its part, tried to demonstrate that the president never dealt directly with the communication campaign, which was instead dealt with by an association set up specifically to take care of the race towards the secretariat of the Democratic Party.

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