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Toti: Aponte to prosecutor, 'we knew about squatting Spinelli'

The Campania-born entrepreneur cites Matteo Catani, CEO of Gnv, as the source of this information

Il presidente della regione Liguria Giovanni Toti (S) e l'imprenditore Aldo Spinelli, in una foto d'archivio.
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Aldo Spinelli had 'occupied the Carbonile areas. We did not have a dossier on him. We certainly did not know all the facts that Spinelli did, but we were aware of his squatting of the areas'.

This was said by Giovanni Toti, the shipowner Gianluigi Aponte during his hearing in the public prosecutor's office as a person informed of the facts.

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The Campania-born entrepreneur cites as the source of this information Matteo Catani, CEO of Gnv.

The entrepreneur had ended up in the interceptions of the Ligurian prosecutors' proceedings. On record is an extracted dialogue, his harsh outburst with the then president of the Port Authority, Paolo Emilio Signorini (who is also under house arrest after more than two months in prison, ed.)

"Here I learn that practically his organization has decided to give another 14,000 square meters to Spinelli ... and in short, if you want to give him the entire port of Genoa - he said without knowing to be heard by the investigators - in short, and we are watching, but in short, the thing begins to become a bit 'indecent. And again: 'That's enough now, I tell you the thing is going to end badly because now or you give me this space or else I'll really sue you all, that's enough now because I'm annoyed here let's say kindness is taken for stupidity ... in short, it is indecent what is happening to our group, it is not acceptable is a lack of respect,' he thundered.

Investigations are ongoing and Spinelli could also be investigated for squatting. The prosecutors asked Aponte the reason for his outburst.

"It arose from the fact that Spinelli - the answer of the owner of Msc to the prosecutors Federico Manotti and Luca Monteverde - had obtained a lot of areas in the port of Genoa and we, despite having made only one request, were denied". The witness explained that 'the phone call was not addressed directly to Signorini, but to his collaborators. The person who had told me that these areas would be allocated to Spinelli was Catani... he was bitter that Spinelli was able to obtain any area of the port requested'.

During the hearing with the owners of the file, Aponte went on to explain that he had met Toti several times 'for issues related to the port' and that he was not aware that he had ever given funding to the governor's committee.

At the end of July 2021 he also participated in a summit with the president and mayor Marco Bucci. "It was a meeting related, in general terms, to the development of the port and the impact on the city. We also talked about the new breakwater and the lengthening of the quays, with a view to creating new spaces to receive the new supercontainer ships. We also talked about the possibility of unifying the port areas in order to create a single hub for container storage,' he added.

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