Report and Santanchè case: 8 things to know about tonight’s service

TURIN. Report returns to the judicial case involving the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché: the Rai3 journalistic investigative program lines up the points, thanks to internal documents of the company headed by the minister, from which “false representations of reality pronounced by Santanché” would emerge during his speech in the Senate” last week.

Here are the key points of Report

1 «The Minister of Tourism has maintained that her participation has never exceeded 5% of Ki Group. But from the documents in our possession – says the transmission – we will demonstrate that since 2013, Santanché owned 14.9% of control of the company and had signed a shareholders’ agreement that placed it directly in the governance».

2 According to Report, «the minister declared that she only joined the company to help her son. But at the time she was named president, her son was just 16 years old. That there was a personal advantage of her is demonstrated by internal documents which reveal the company’s participation in the Visibilia capital increase since 2013 ».

3 And again: the minister “swore that she had not had any operational role in Ki Group, but unpublished photos and documents which Report has come into possession of reveal the exact opposite”.

4 According to what emerges from the broadcast, Santanchè «claimed that his gross salaries never exceeded 100,000 euros. Internal documents of the company demonstrate – as does Siegfried Ranucci’s program – that his gross salaries exceed 400,000 euros a year even when the company was losing millions of euros a year ».

5 The program also adds that «Santanchè denied being still in the company when the Ki Group employees were fired without liquidation, but internal documents deny it».

6 The minister, the transmission also maintains, «denied that the employee of Visibilia, who worked while she was on zero-hour layoffs, was unaware of her contractual condition and that she worked on layoffs. For the first time, the Visibilia employee speaks with her face uncovered in front of the camera and recounts, with documentary evidence, «her version which completely denies that of Santanchè, she claims to have been paid with a mileage refund, and to have worked in the period layoffs also in the Senate”.

7 Finally, the minister at Palazzo Madama «declared that Negma has brought only advantages», but Report relaunches «with internal numbers and a new interview with Giuseppe Zeno, the minority shareholder of Visibilia from which the investigation starts and who he speaks for the first time after the minister’s speech in the Senate.

8 “Santanché – concludes the note sent by Report – has promised that he will take charge of Visibilia’s debts, but a document from the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office seriously questions his proposal”.