Ligurian enquiry, 'to Toti 195,000 euro from waste entrepreneurs'. Signorini does not answer the magistrates

The investigation for corruption and electoral bribery of the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office on the 'Toti system', the president of the Liguria Region who is now under house arrest, is widening: the public prosecutor's office is hunting for the entrepreneurs involved and the ordinance states that among the financiers of Change, the foundation that was headed by Toti, and the Giovanni Toti Committee, as well as the port entrepreneurs there are also those who deal with waste and landfills.

Such as Pietro Colucci, a businessman from Campania who in 1921 managed a number of landfills in the province of Savona for the disposal of special non-hazardous waste with the recovery of materials and electricity from biogas. In that year, the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office investigated him for illegal financing of parties with Toti (in particular, the president's political formation) for corruption.

According to investigators, between 2016 and 2020 Colucci, through his companies, had financed Toti with EUR 195,000. In that same period, "the companies traceable to the Colucci group," reads the order, "had had as an institutional interlocutor the Liguria Region, which is responsible for issuing authorisations in the field of landfill management. All the financing from the companies of the group traceable to Colucci and directed to the Change Committee and the Giovanni Toti Liguria Committee had not been approved by their respective corporate bodies and, in some cases, had not even been included in the budget'.

Meanwhile, the former chairman of the port authority and (suspended) CEO of Iren Paolo Emilio Signorini exercised his right not to answer during the interrogation of guarantee this morning in the Genoa Marassi prison.

"The cards are such that they demand a careful reading. A reading that cannot be done in prison. Signorini is quite well beyond the situation has his peace of mind. He only said that, in a second phase, he could possibly talk to the public prosecutor." This is what lawyer Enrico Scopesi said after the interrogation of Paolo Emilio Signorini, in jail since Monday as part of the investigation into the business committee set up by governor Giovanni Toti (under house arrest) with some Ligurian entrepreneurs. 'Signorini believes he can provide a series of explanations, but it is difficult to do so in a situation of imprisonment,' Scopesi continued. 'I trust that the problem of imprisonment can be resolved and addressed. Because the priority now is to clarify the precautionary measure, to get him out of Marassi. He has confirmed his willingness to talk at a later date, if necessary'. The (suspended) CEO of Iren is 'relatively calm in the context of the flooding affair that happened to him and with respect to where he is now,' Scopesi concluded. 'The acts are such and so many that they must be read and verified. It is too early. They have to be interpreted, but that applies to all cases, and there are phone calls from four years ago, taken out of context, that have to be assessed'.