The long story of the Popolare di Bari registers a new twist. The judiciary ordered the seizure of assets for 16 million against Gianluca Jacobini, former co-director of the Banca Popolare di Bari, Giuseppe Marella and Nicola Loperfido, heads of the Internal Audit and Business Department of the institute, police station in December 2019 by Bank of Italy.
All three are accused of obstructing surveillance, but the crime of false corporate communications is also charged against Jacobini. The Bank, on the other hand, is under investigation for the administrative liability of the entity.
On the table of the investigators are the results of the investigations conducted by the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the Bari prosecutor's office. According to the investigation, the three managers would have granted loans to some customers, mainly large business groups, "directly or indirectly used for the purchase of treasury shares, overall affecting the bank's own funds, negatively, for 48,9 million euros ”. However, everything would have been hidden from the Bank of Italy which would have been notified, for the fourth quarter of 2015, an amount of funds from Popolare di Bari "not corresponding to the truth", "overestimated".
