Mediobanca's categorical denial arrives on an alleged agreement with Salvatori Ligresti on the severance pay granted to the family by Premafin. “No agreement with the Ligresti, nor ever signed documents”, let Piazzetta Cuccia know. The Fonsai saga is tinged with a new yellow that revolves around a document of a couple of pages seized last Thursday in the office of the lawyer Cristina Rossello, secretary of the Mediobanca syndicate agreement. And that Salvatore Ligresti, questioned last week by prosecutor Luigi Orsi, says he signed and then handed over to the lawyer Rossello, as trustee of the agreement. But no signature appears in the seized document. Furthermore, Ligresti stated that he had not informed Federico Ghizzoni and Carlo Cimbri, directors of Unicredit and Unipol respectively, mentioned in the alleged agreement, and therefore that he had no idea if they had been made aware of the matter.
According to Salvatore Ligresti it would be one written on an alleged agreement between Ligresti and Mediobanca which would have been the focus of a meeting between Ligresti and Alberto Nagel, CEO of Mediobanca, last 17st May.
The (presumed) agreement provides for the payment of around 43 million euros, the value of the Premafin dei Ligresti shares (30%) before the Unipol operation, but also an office with a secretary, a driver and one of his farms ownership, a sort of liquidation for Jonella and the maintenance of the current working activity that Giulia and Paolo carry out in France and Switzerland. Details of a "privileged treatment" which add to the already controversial indemnity and right of withdrawal initially granted to the Ligresti by Unipol and then hastily eliminated due to the Consob barrier (and defended to the last by the Ligresti).
The first to bring out the existence of this document before prosecutor Orsi was Paolo Ligresti. Then Jonella, who would have been present at the meeting on May 17 between her father and Alberto Nagel. Today, attorney Rossello was also heard as a witness by prosecutor Orsi, who kept the document in a safe, in a deposition lasting over three and a half hours: which began for over two hours in the morning and was resumed after lunch for about another hour and a half. "No statement," said the lawyer Rossello as he left the court. On the Stock Exchange, Premafin rose by 1,67%, Fondiaria Sai by 2,74% while rights lost 79%, Fondiaria Risparmio -1,22% and rights -66,6%. Unipol sells 13,26% and rights 84%, preferred companies -8,40% and rights -86,3%.
