that’s why he said he didn’t know – Corriere.it

Jailbird or blessed, depending on your point of view, the togato carrier pigeon. Because only the randomness of a slow-motion procedure for extending the investigations is allowing Minister Daniela Santanch and the MPs who spoke in the Senate briefing on Wednesday 5 July to make the surreal comparison between who pretends not to know that the minister has been under investigation for months for false accounting
who (starting with her) does therefore pretend to be scandalized by reading it here and now, and who gets into a squabble either in denouncing the clockwork press or in riding the judicial charge.

Let Santanch be investigated for false accounting in the 2016-2020 communications of Visibilia Editore spa, in fact, it has been known since it was written (here on 2 and 3 November 2022) not by virtue of who knows what successful scoop, but simply because – among the documents of the Public Prosecutor’s request to the Bankruptcy Court to detach the plug and put into liquidation four companies of the entrepreneur’s Visibilia group, mostly indebted to the tax authorities – a note dated 30 September 2022 by the Market Protection Group of the Guardia di Finanza of Milan was already clear in pointing out to prosecutors the existence of the crime of false corporate communications.

And when in that early November to try to deny the news Santanch will flaunt the routine certification of the Prosecutor’s Office at the request of its lawyers contemplated by article 335 of the code of procedure (there are no registrations susceptible to communication), it was understood immediately that it was a possible case of appeal by the prosecutors to 3 bis of that article 335, i.e. to the in the event of complex investigations, the faculty to delay (for a maximum of 3 months) the communication of the registration. d

the rest, even if Santanch will never admit it, his lawyers in those days, and then for a long time during the bankruptcy hearings, had had explicit discussions with the prosecutor in which it was undisputed that Santanch was being investigated both for false accounting and for bankruptcy contest: reason why the minister was careful not to send them to ask for certification again, precisely to be able to continue to say that he has no formal notice of investigations against him.

But six months after registration there is always another procedural step: the prosecutors, if they need more time to investigate, they have to ask (under penalty of unusability of subsequent acquisitions) the extension of the investigation to the judge of the preliminary investigations, who must notify the request for extension to the suspect and therefore inform him of the investigations against him. If the latter already has a defender, the notification takes place shortly with a pec to the lawyer.

But Santanch, who has also had other criminal proceedings in Milan in the past, in this one on the false accounting of Visibilia he has never given a formal mandate to a criminal lawyerwhile the civil lawyer who follows her in the bankruptcy hearings of the companies has no title.

In these cases, the request for the extension of the investigations is notified to the domicile of the suspectand we have proof of this when the postcard from the Judicial Officer (Unep Office) attesting the successful delivery returns to the investigating judge.

The point that in the case of Santanch, which Gdf could be guessed from that report had been investigated at the end of September 2022, the six months expired on 30 Marchwhen the Public Prosecutor’s Office therefore asked for the extension of the investigations, the notification of which has not been completed and is still in progress along the Gip Office-Bailiffs axis.

Nothing could be easier, therefore, than the postcard, mockingly timing, complete your trip and perhaps arrive only in the next few days.

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