Qatargate, the business entanglements in Milan between the Panzeri, the Giorgi and the Bellini accountant – Corriere.it

A bar in Milan, Victory caf, from which posts dedicated to the communications of the law firm in Locate Triulzi (Milan) where Silvia Panzeri works are sent via social media; the ownership of the bar belongs in part to Manfred Forte, a Slovenian, residing in the nearby Milanese building in via Castel Morrone where Silvia Panzeri herself lives; a consultancy company, Equality consultancy with offices in Opera (Milan), in the past owned by Forte and Monica Rossana Bellini, an accountant whose firm (company headquarters) always has Silvia Panzeri as a client; finally Luciano and Stefano Giorgi, father and brother of Francesco, old partners of the same Equality consultancy. This is what the newspaper reconstructed in the background The Truth, downstream of the Qatargate. Scandal and investigation which sees, among others and for various reasons (criminal association, corruption and money laundering), the former MEP Antonio Panzeri (Silvia’s father, also subject to pre-trial detention) and Francesco Giorgi arrested on a mandate from the Belgian judiciary , former assistant of Panzeri and companion of Eva Kaili, now former vice president of the European Parliament, also arrested.

Profits and losses

Based on what has emerged, the corporate purpose of the Equality consultancy would make the Giorgis’ initiative look like an NGO active in the field of human rights, capable of excellent profits at least until 2019 (102,500 euros of operating profit against of a production value of 240 thousand). After a few corporate passages, however, the Giorgis leave the scene in favor of Forte and Bellini (who are not investigated in the parent investigation). In September 2019, when Antonio Panzeri founded the NGO Fight impunity now at the center of the Belgian investigation for alleged bribes in favor of MEPs willing to defend the interests of Qatar and Morocco, in the meantime Francesco Giorgi enters the company as senior advisor, but things they go badly and in November 2021 the company was put into liquidation and subsequently closed, after Forte and Bellini covered losses of over 50 thousand euros. Since then, different paths.