The veil is lifted on the Italian names of the so-called Falciani List, which are published in the weekly l'Espresso today on newsstands. FromThe huge database taken from the former HSBC employee, Hervé Falciani, had already revealed the presence of 7.499 Italians, who had deposited a total of 7 billion and 452 million dollars in the Swiss branch of the English bank.
Among these thousands of fellow citizens a few famous names had surfaced, but now the list is expanding: among the names on the List, to limit ourselves to those more connected to the world of economics and finance, there is for example the president of Telecom Italia, Joseph Recchi, former president of Eni, director of Exor and UnipolSai, and member of the Executive Council of Confindustria. Until 1999, the manager was a shareholder of Recchi Costruzioni, a group active in 25 countries in the construction sector of large public infrastructures.
Then there are the vice president of Bocconi University, Louis Guatri, and Giancarlo giammetti, a close collaborator of the stylist Valentino Garavani (among the Italian "VIPs" present in the first list released in the press, together with Valentino Rossi and Flavio Briatore), there is the managing director of the Benetton group, Eugenio Marco Airoldi, a former Boston Consulting consultant, and entrepreneur Julius Malgara, for 23 years president of Upa, the association that brings together the 500 major industrial and commercial companies that invest in advertising, and founder of Auditel (of which he is president).
Then there are also the financier Luigi Zunino, who “frankly does not remember ever having an account at HSBC in Geneva”, Louis Luini, the king of panzerotti of Milan e Manfredi Catella, Hines' real estate developer who had 922 euros in Switzerland, “a hereditary bequest”, replies to Espresso. He doesn't remember anything Franco Gusselli Beretta, manager of the well-known Brescian arms factory questioned by the weekly.
Check, among others, also the name of the pollster Renato Mannheimer who just a few days ago paid the Revenue Agency more than 6,3 million euros to close a legal case in which he was accused of tax fraud worth 10 million euros. The compensation to the tax authorities allowed him to obtain the go-ahead from the Milan prosecutor's office to negotiate a sentence of one year and 11 months. He amazes the presence of little Davide Serra, the pro-Renzi financier who has lived in London for 18 years, who confirmed that he holds an account "in total transparency and in accordance with the English system", and that he will probably have deposits scattered in other banks as well since he resides in abroad.
However, the presence of two politicians in the list published today by L'Espresso raises more clamor. Ten million and 700 thousand dollars was the availability of the former parliamentarian George Stracquadanio, who disappeared in January 2014. A former radical who later joined Forza Italia, Stracquadanio belonged to a wealthy family. The account opened at HSBC was also in the name of his sister Tiziana and father Raffaele.
The list also includes the parliamentarian of the Democratic Party, Joseph Civati, former candidate for the party secretariat and leader of the anti-Renzian minority, who however immediately clarified his position. The deposit – writes l'Espresso – is in fact only 6.589 dollars, of which the owner is his father Roberto, former CEO of companies such as Redaelli Tecna in Milan. "The reason why my name also appears depends solely on the fact that my father opened that account in 1994 (when I was nineteen) indicating me as attorney, together with my mother (as heirs, in case he was missing) ”, Civati wrote in her blog. "The account has never exceeded 10 euros, it expired in 2011 (having zeroed due to maintenance costs) and there is no evidence of any movement on it", concluded Civati.
La Guardia di Finanza to date it has checked 3.276 names on the Falciani List and, due to the tax shield, has only been able to dispute 741 million in undeclared income. Of these, only 30 were collected.
At the same time, it also comes to life there'investigation by the Milan prosecutor's office on an alleged tax fraud "for several hundred million euros" committed by at least 351 people (those identified so far) through the insurance policy system of the Italian branch of a company of the Credit Suisse group, a bank based in Zurich.
The Guardia di Finanza has therefore identified and forwarded to the investigators 351 names, who all together are said to have hidden one billion euros, while other encrypted policies - for a total of one thousand - are being examined by prosecutors and the Fiamme Gialle. hide from the treasury about eight billion in total. Figures that the financiers calculated after examining the documents found in the company's Milan office Credit Suisse Life & Pension Aktiengesellschaft (Cslp); papers from which "it was possible to reconstruct an activity of promotion of financial instruments called 'insurance policies' aimed at Italian customers and not included in the official accounts of the CSLP", he recently wrote the central director of the Revenue Agency, Aldo Polito, to the heads of the regional directorates.
