Milan confirms Irene Pivetti's four-year sentence for tax evasion and self-laundering

The resulting confiscation of more than EUR 3.4 million, money that had already been frozen in the course of the investigation against the former Lega Nord member, was also confirmed.

The enquiry alleged an intermediary role of Only Italia, a company linked to Pivetti, in the operations of Isolani's Team Racing, which wanted to hide certain assets, including the three Ferraris, from the tax authorities (he had a debt of 5 million);

The cars were allegedly the focus of a fake sale in 2016 to the Chinese Daohe group to be transferred to Spain.

The only 'asset actually sold, i.e. passed on' to the Chinese, according to the indictment, would be 'the Scuderia Isolani logo combined with the Ferrari logo'.

If the aim of 'Isolani and Mascoli' was 'to conceal the ownership of assets and evade them' from the tax authorities, 'the aim pursued by Pivetti' would have been 'to buy the Isolani-Ferrari logo and sell it at ten times its price to the Dahoe group, without appearing in person'.

For the prosecution, the former parliamentarian allegedly bought the trade mark for EUR 1.2 million to sell it back to the Chinese company for 'EUR 10 million'.

The former third official of the State, reads the first instance judgement, 'having put in place a particularly captious mechanism, in order to avoid the risk that the sums resulting from the commercial transactions with the Chinese contractor would be subject to taxation, carried out his criminal intent for a long time'.

Fuori dall’aula

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'The truth will come out, I am calm, the truth is that I am innocent'. This is how Irene Pivetti, former president of the Chamber of Deputies, commented with reporters on the second-grade verdict.

"I would have expected a different outcome, now I am very curious to see the motivations, but I am also very calm, because the truth will come out sooner or later, I am not worried," Pivetti explained to reporters, clarifying that "the truth is that I am innocent, as I have always said and also demonstrated in the papers of this trial. Really,' she concluded, 'I do not know how the sentence was confirmed, the motivations will explain it to us'.

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In September 2022, the Court of Cassation confirmed the seizure of almost EUR 3.5 million from the former Lega Nord member of parliament. "I have always paid my taxes," Pivetti, defended by lawyer Filippo Cocco, reiterated on several occasions. Pivetti, in court today as always during the trial, had also argued in the examination before the judges in first instance that she was innocent and her lawyer had asked for the sentence to be overturned with an acquittal. She will now have to wait for the motivations to appeal to the Court of Cassation.