Morning of illustrious arrests: the entrepreneur Angelo Rizzoli, the president of Cagliari Massimo Cellino and Gianluca Baldassarri, former head of finance of Banca Montepaschi, end up in handcuffs in the context of separate investigations.
Angelo Rizzoli – The latest news, from a chronological point of view, is the precautionary custody order executed in Rome by the Guardia di Finanza, against Angelo Rizzoli, as part of an investigation by the Rome prosecutor's office, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Nello Rossi assisted by the deputy prosecutors Francesco Ciardi and Giorgio Orano.
The accusation for Rizzoli is of fraudulent bankruptcy for the crash, of 30 million euros, by Rizzoli Audiovisivi and its subsidiaries. Companies and properties worth around 7 million euros were seized from the entrepreneur, including the family residence in Parioli.
Gianluca Baldassari – A few hours earlier, however, the former head of finance of Mps Gianluca Baldassarri had been arrested in Milan by the Fiamme Gialle. They hang over his head "serious indications of guilt", and the precautionary custody order would serve, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, to avert "a serious risk of escape".
Thus, the plot of the scandal that engulfed the Sienese institute thickens. The Guardia di Finanza, which is currently carrying out searches in Milan, had already seized 40 million euros last week shielded from Baldassarri, his deputy and four other people, hypothesizing the crime of criminal conspiracy aimed at fraud.
Massimo Cellino – Massimo Cellino, the controversial president of Cagliari Calcio, ended up in handcuffs at dawn. Together with him, Mauro Contini and Stefano Lilliu, respectively mayor and councilor for public works of the municipality of Quartu, were arrested. Cellino would have already been accompanied to the prison district of Cagliari.
The charge, for them, is of attempted embezzlement and ideological forgery, as part of the investigation by the Cagliari prosecutor's office into the adaptation works of the Is Arenas stadium, where Cagliari (between one controversy and another) is playing its home games this year.
At the center of the investigation are the funds of the Pia, the Integrated Area Plan for the Is Arenas area, which would have been used, in part, to finance the construction of some structures of the sports facility, covering expenses which should have been paid by Cagliari Calcio. For the same accusation, on 29 November, handcuffs were also released for two other managers of the municipality of Quartu (Pierpaolo Gessa and Andrea Masala) and for Antonio Grussu, owner of Andreoni, the company that had carried out the works.
