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30 December 2019 Direct summons to trial for culpable bankruptcy, before the monochrome judge of Arezzo, for 14 former executives and members of the last board of Banca Etruria. The initiative was exercised by the Arezzo prosecutor for the crime of culpable bankruptcy contested for the assignment of external consultancy given to look for a partner for the Arezzo bank but considered by the prosecutors useless and such as to aggravate the crash.

Among the prosecutors mentioned is Pier Luigi Boschi, father of the former minister Maria Elena, who was a member of that board, and this time Boschi would end up on trial for the first time in the whole Etruria affair. In fact, in October, one of its positions was filed in the vein relating to the failure to merge Etruria with Popolare Vicenza. For him and other defendants, the investigating judge does not see the integration of the bankruptcy crime regarding the assessment of a possible merger between the two banks.

In February 2019 Boschi had also been filed, again with other suspects, by the line of false statements in relation to communications given to savers to subscribe to some products. Instead, by the first of January 2020 the decision of the Piergiorgio Ponticelli gup on the strand dedicated to the liquidation of 700,000 euros given to the former CEO Luca Bronchi in 2014 is expected: among the 12 defendants that await there is also Boschi senior.

In the direct citation for the 14 the prosecutor hypothesizes the culpable bankruptcy for super-consultations including 4 million euros paid for assignments to large companies (Mediobanca and Bain) and important law firms (Grande Stevens in Turin and Zoppini in Rome). For the power of attorney, the 14 defendants sued would not have supervised the drafting of the consultations, which the investigators consider largely useless and repetitive, as well as such as to contribute to the aggravation of the failure.

In this vein there were 17 suspects. To the 14 for which the prosecutor exercised the direct summons, are added the ex president Lorenzo Rosi, the ex dg Luca Bronchi and the ex vice president Alfredo Berni: but these three, already involved in the process for fraudulent bankruptcy still in progress ( Rosi is accused, Bronchi and Berni were sentenced there in abbreviated rite), the prosecutor did not cite them since the same facts of the consulting vein were already disputed to them in that process. The maxi-trial with 25 defendants will resume on 9 January in Arezzo.