From Visibilia to alleged Inps fraud: Santanchè's legal troubles

'Evil not to do, fear not to have': this is the formula behind which she has always taken refuge whenever in public she was asked to account for her judicial woes. Which are many. Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè, who is very close to Senate President Ignazio La Russa, "invited" to resign by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is in fact on trial for false accounting in the Visibilia case, the publishing group she founded and from which she has divested herself of posts and shares. And she is in preliminary hearing for aggravated fraud to the Inps on the redundancy fund in the Covid period, again on the Visibilia chapter.

To the list must be added the two other bankruptcy charges for which she risks going to trial: one for the bankruptcy of Bioera, the biofood group's spa of which she was president until 2021 (the most recent), another on the collapse of Ki Group srl.

A burden that has not prevented the senator from Fratelli d'Italia from 'working regularly' as she claimed until a few moments before the note of dismissal signed by the Prime Minister, when she let it be known that 'she is expected in the office at 9.30' this morning. Evidently unaware of the torpedo leaving Palazzo Chigi.

For her political fate, the FdI senator has always considered the most insidious proceeding to be that for the alleged 126,000 euro fraud at the Social Security Institute. The request for trial for Santanchè and the other defendants dates back to May 2024. In her self-defence pronounced in the Chamber of Deputies during the motion of no-confidence that she had survived in February 2025 (the third after those of July 2023 and July 2024), she had spoken of 'a reflection, in order to also consider my resignation'.

The word has never been uttered since. In the meantime, times are getting longer: on 20 February last, Milan's Gup Tiziana Gueli, considering that there is a conflict of attribution with the Public Prosecutor's Office raised by the Senate to the Council on the uselessness of some investigative acts, decided to adjourn the proceedings, setting the next hearing for 14 October. To carry out the first admissibility examination of the Senate's appeal, which must then be followed by a hearing and a decision, the Consulta could take about six months. Therefore, it is unlikely to close before the end of the year. But the government's defeat in the referendum on justice has forced an acceleration. The pace of politics has quickened. Now the minister risks ending up on trial but in Parliament: this time for a motion of no-confidence from her own majority. Meanwhile, a no-confidence motion has been filed in the House and signed by all opposition forces.