His name is not on the register of suspects. This was assured by the chief prosecutor of Turin Gian Carlo Caselli, referring to the Minister of Justice Anna Maria Cancellieri, at risk of resignation after the phone calls made to the Ligresti, who ended up in prison for the Fonsai investigation.
"With reference to documents acquired only recently (tabulated on November 6 and related Gdf annotation on November 16) referring to the so-called Ligresti case, the Turin prosecutor announces that no person has been entered in the register of suspects", reads the press release of the prosecution.
The telephone records filed on November 6, which report the conversations between Antonino Ligresti and Annamaria Cancellieri, will be transferred to the Rome prosecutor's office with a file that does not report any hypothetical crimes or suspects, but which may require further investigation.
Specifically, Cancellieri is not accused of having made false statements in the interrogation of August 22 before the assistant prosecutor of Turin Vittorio Nessi, who asked her about her relations with the Ligresti family. The case arose in the wake of the telephone interceptions, ordered in the investigation into Fonsai's false accounting, in which some contacts of the minister with Salvatore Ligresti's wife and brother had emerged.
During the interrogation, Cancellieri had admitted that he had spoken with the wife of the property developer on July 17, the day of the arrests, and two days later with Salvatore's brother, Antonino, responding to the appeal that the family friend addressed to her to try to unblock the issue of the release of his niece Giulia. The minister made it known that on August 21 he received a text message from Antonino himself asking for news and that he replied that he had made the report, "nothing more". On the basis of the deeds filed on 6 November, however, it appeared that it had not been a text message, but a 7-minute phone call. These are the points that the Rome prosecutor's office will have to evaluate and eventually investigate.
