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21 December 2019 The reasons will be known in 45 days, this is the maximum time that the court of the review of Florence took. In the meantime, however, the decision on the seizures of documents and IT media has been filed, which have been confirmed: the appeal was rejected both for the entrepreneur Marco Carrai and for some of the financiers.

The investigation is that on the Open Foundation, born in 2012 to support political initiatives such as Matteo Renzi's Leopolda, which sees among the suspects the lawyer Alberto Bianchi and Carrai, the first former president, the second former councilor of the same Foundation: both are charged with the hypothesis of an offense of illicit financing of parties, the lawyer also with the traffic of influences.

On the other hand, some of the Open sponsors, including the Aleotti family and the financier Davide Serra who, like Carrai, had turned to the review to have the seizures that took place during the visits of the Gdf at home and office taken at the end of last November. This request was rejected.

"The review court - this is the comment of the defenders of Carrai, the lawyers Massimo Dinoia and Filippo Cei - rejected our requests and reserved the deposit of the confirmation reasons in 45 days. It is an unusual time, rather surprising and frankly never seen before for similar situations, all the more considering that the thesis submitted to judgment by the defense of Mr. Marco Carrai (and supported by the comfort of three illustrious professors) was limited to a question of pure law, that is, if the alleged conduct hypothesized in the decree of seizure constitutes a crime or not. In our opinion and that of the three experts, including one former President of the Constitutional Court, no. "

The reference is also to an opinion by Giovanni Maria Flick, from which, according to what has been learned, it would have emerged that the Open Foundation was not to be considered a party articulation - as claimed by the prosecution -, unless applied retroactively, and therefore illegitimate, the 'sweep-corrupt' law passed in 2019. If legally the Foundation is not a political party, it was the reasoning proposed by the defenders of the entrepreneur, then there can be no illicit funding for the parties, that is, the crime alleged against Carrai.