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14 September 2020 There are nine suspects in total for embezzlement in the investigation into the Lombardia Film Commission case.

In addition to the five to whom the precautionary measure was applied, including the three trusted accountants of the Lega and the figurehead Luca Sostegni, there are also Pierino Maffeis, Elio Foiadelli and Vanessa Servalli, directors of companies attributable to professionals who ended up under house arrest.

And the entrepreneur Francesco Barachetti is also being investigated, as was known.

It emerges from the request for rogatory in Switzerland filed in the investigation documents.

In the letter rogatory of August 18, the prosecutors also speak of the "Panamanian company that fences an account in Switzerland", which also ended up at the center of the investigation. 



Maffeis is under investigation as director of Eco srl, a company that transferred the money collected by Andromeda srl ​​for the inflated sale of the Cormano warehouse to Barachetti service, "simulating the payment of invoices for non-existent operations".

Foiadelli responds as director of the SDC "who, upon issuing and annotating invoices for non-existent transactions, received the money from Immobiliare Andromeda and transferred it to Di Rubba and Manzoni", the two accountants of the Lega, "and to legal persons referable to them".

Servalli, then, is investigated as administrator of Taaac srl, "real estate vehicle company domiciled in the office of Michele Scillieri", another arrested accountant.

In the deeds of the rogatory the prosecutors also report the testimony of Roberto Tradati, head of the Fidirev trust company through which part of the 800 thousand euros collected from the sale of the shed would have passed.

The witness spoke of "Gleason", a Panamanian company.

"Scillieri - he said - came to me to tell me that he intended to physically bring the money back to Italy and close the fiduciary mandate".

And he told him, however, that it was "necessary to resolve the situation of Gleason in Switzerland", which was managed by "Dreieck, a Swiss trust company that also manages Panamanian companies".

And they did an operation for which in the end "Dreieck ran Gleason on behalf of Sostegni," the alleged figurehead in prison, "and no longer on behalf of Scillieri."

A debt of 400 thousand euros was "burdened" on Gleason.

This is how the prosecutors summarize the operation: "Sostegni buys a Panamanian-based company for one euro that fences a Swiss account, managed by a Swiss trust company, burdened with a debt and repays this debt with the funding from Andromeda".