In the Santanchè case, the prosecutors are now also speculating that the companies in the Visibilia group may be defrauding the state

The crime of aggravated fraud against the State has been formally entered in the file opened by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office following the statements made in the minutes, as a witness, by Federica Bottiglione, a former manager of one of the companies in the Visibilia group founded by the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè.

During her hearing in June, the former executive of Visibilia Editore, with the role of investor relator officer, i.e. delegated to draft and manage communications to the market of the listed company, had said that she continued to work when, from March 2020 to November 2021, she was officially on layoffs at zero hours during the Covid period, thus providing a detail that led the prosecutor Maria Gravina and the deputy prosecutor Laura Pedio to open an independent investigation, linked to the main one for forgery in the balance sheet and bankruptcy, which sees Santanchè among the suspects.

The deposition had been made in this larger file.

At the moment, from what has been known, the investigation resulting from the version of the former manager, who would have received INPS contributions even if he continued to work for the company, is based on model 44, with the hypothesis of a crime but without suspects. And the focus of the investigators is now also on the other workers, about twenty in all, to understand if the same scheme has also been applied to them. Santanchè risks a new investigation against him, also because, in the period for which the former manager gave an account, he was at the top of the company as president.

Two other investigations are also going on in the Prosecutor’s Office, one for insider trading with Negma at the center, a fund based in the Emirates and the British Virgin Islands which has concluded financing operations with about twenty companies in crisis, including Visibilia and Ki Group, companies in which the Fdi senator once had a stake. And another focused precisely on Ki Group, with the prosecutors who in September should give their opinion on the simplified composition proposal put forward by the company.