Alessandro Profumo has been indicted together with 19 other people from the Milan gup, Laura Marchiondelli. The charge is of fraudulent tax return aggravated by obstruction of investigations and refers to when the current Chairman of Banca Mps was at the helm of Unicredit. In particular, the Brontos investigation concerns financial transactions that would have allowed the Piazza Cordusio institution to pay less taxes.
According to the hypothesis formulated by the deputy prosecutor, Alfredo Robledo, between 2007 and 2009 Unicredit would have carried out a series of oTransactions with Luxembourg companies of Barclays to disguise profits and show them as dividends from financial transactions, so as to benefit from a lower tax rate. The value of the fraud would be 245 million euro.
“I understand that the Judge for the Preliminary Hearing is not the Judge of the merits and therefore I am confidently and impatiently awaiting public judgment, certain as I am of the correctness of all my actions and which can therefore only be recognized as such”, commented Profumo in a note. "In this way - concludes the manager - the damage to my reputation that I am in fact inevitably, albeit unjustly, suffering will also be put to an end".
Among the other defendants, also three employees of the English bank Barclays. The trial will begin on October XNUMX before the judges of the Second Criminal Section of the Milan court.
Despite news of the investigation into its current chairman, today's stock i Montepaschi takes to the stock market, clearly leading the rises of the Ftse Mib. The shares of Unicredit also remain in positive territory.
