Santanché tied up the liberty villa in the center of Milan for 6 million euros to avoid the bankruptcy of Visibilia

MILAN. He did it to avoid the bankruptcy of Visibilia and, consequently, the accusation of fraudulent bankruptcy. The Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché – who tomorrow will go to the Senate for information on the events that have overwhelmed her businesses – has pledged her Art Nouveau villa in the center of Milan. A 642 square meter building with an indoor swimming pool, fitness area and Turkish bath, which is now worth 6 million euros.

The news was reported by the newspaper Tomorrow: “This destination restriction is aimed at guaranteeing only three debts of the restructuring” including “the one to the Revenue Agency”.

The stakes are high. Because after the judicial liquidation application presented by the Milan prosecutor’s office, the old bankruptcy, the minister’s race against time has begun to pay off the debts of the companies. Three files were opened by the pool of assistant prosecutor Laura Pedio: one on Visibilia, for fraudulent bankruptcy and false accounting, which sees Santanché under investigation, a second on model 45, without suspects and crime hypotheses on Ki group, and a third on the Dubai investment fund, Negma which saved – for the prosecution by sinking its title – at least 16 Italian companies including those of the Meloni government minister.

While the investigation into the Ki group is taking its first steps, as far as the Visibilia group is concerned, the game remains open before the bankruptcy court for Visibilia in liquidazione Srl. The Revenue Agency will have to decide whether to accept “the homologation of the debt restructuring” proposed by the minister’s lawyers which would allow her to spread the one million and 200 thousand euro debt that the company still owes to the tax authorities over ten years. Although, in his consultancy requested by prosecutors Roberto Fontana (now at the CSM) and Maria Gravina, professor Nicola Pecchiari points out: «The situation of the company’s patrimonial and financial crisis is clear, which finds itself unable to cope with the assets available for existing debts”.

As for the history of the Art Nouveau villa in the center of Milan, as Domani reconstructs, Santanché bought it in 2004 from the heirs of Giuseppe Poggi Longostrevi, the king of Milanese clinics involved in Tangentopoli, and who took his own life in that very luxurious home. At the time, the minister bought it for 1.2 million euros. Today, after an impressive renovation work, it is valued at almost 6 million euros in an appraisal attached to the notarial deed, which establishes the restriction on the house divided into several levels. The basement, the most characteristic, is composed as follows: «three rooms for office use, plus accessories, arts and crafts laboratory room, fitness area».