The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has closed the investigation into Salvatore Ligresti and Giancarlo Giannini, former Isvap president: the alleged crime, for the two, is complicity in corruption, and for Giannini, from a certain date onwards, also slander against Ligresti.
Two very different periods, those reconstructed by prosecutors Luigi Orsi and Alfredo Robleado. The first goes from 2002 to August 2010, when the Ligresti group takes control of Fondiaria. The accusation leveled against Giannini is that of having avoided the inspections of the institution that he directed, Isvap, on the insurance pole.
The inspection arrived only in October 2010, but, according to the prosecutors, it would have been a "late initiative", which came a year after the report by Giovanni Cucinotta (manager of the Isvap Supervision area) on the anomalies of the accounts of Fonsai. According to the prosecutor's office, Giannini also slowed down the inspections of suspected money disbursements (consulting for millions of euros) from Fonsai to Salvatore and Jonella Ligresti.
A special eye that had a price: Ligresti's promise of an intercession with Silvio Berlusconi, to obtain Giannini the position of president of the Competition and Market Authority.
This is the competition in corruption. Then comes the slander: following the ever clearer signs of the collapse of the Ligrestis, Giannini, "in order to conceal the fact that he had failed to carry out his due supervision of Fonsai and to achieve impunity", reports to the judiciary that the ISVAP inspection concluded on 29 September 2011 had realized that in the past Ligresti had concealed from Isvap important data on claims reserves with repercussions on the 2010 financial statements, in addition to the anomalous and undue payment to Ligresti of 28 million by Fonsai in 2003-2010 .
According to the prosecutors, Giannini lied to cover his "late and ineffective supervision". The lawyer of the former Isvap president asked the prosecutors to interrogate his client. Subsequently, the Public Prosecutor's Office will decide whether to request the indictment or whether to change his mind in the face of the defensive arguments and ask for their dismissal.
