“Everyone said that we would never have agreed to call Ghizzoni to a hearing in the Parliamentary Commission on Banks and once again they were denied: we in the Democratic Party have nothing to fear and we challenge everyone”. It was the president of the Democratic Party himself, Matteo Orfini, who communicated this morning that his group had nothing against summoning the former CEO of Unicredit, Federico Ghizzoni, to the Commission on banks, to clarify his relations with the former minister Maria Elena Boschi about an alleged interest of the latter in the rescue of Banca Etruria, of which her father was vice president.
Ghizzoni will be heard and questioned by the Banking Commission before Christmas.
But if Ghizzoni is summoned, then – the Pd asked for and was granted – all those who in any way had to do with the banking crisis must be listened to: from the former Minister of the Treasury, Giulio Tremonti, who played some role in vicissitudes of Monte dei Paschi, to his successors Vittorio Grilli and Fabizio Saccomanni, by the Northern League governor of Veneto Luca Zaia who advocated the merger between Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca despite the fact that one was more unstable than the other (on this point Bankitalia too will have to clarify because he did not oppose the advances of the former number one of Vicenza, Gianni Zonin, investigated today for various hypotheses of crime, on the Veneto Banca), the Treviso prosecutor Michele dalla Costa who is investigating the crack of the Veneto banks and the sister of the 'honorable Ghedini, the lawyer of Silvio Berlusconi, who was a consultant to Veneto Banca, and to the former CEO of the latter institution, Vincenzo Consoli and to the former president of Popolare Vicenza, Gianni Zonin.
Before Ghizzoni, the president of Consob, Giuseppe Vegas, the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco and the Minister of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan will also be heard. The hope of the president of the Commission, Pierferdinando Casini, is that the parade of hearings is not an electoral rodeo but really serves to clarify the dynamics of the banking crises. But some doubts are legitimate.
