Other troubles in sight for the Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchèwith the bankruptcy court of Milan which opened the judicial liquidation procedure, or the old bankruptcy, for another of the companies of the bio-food group owned by the minister. It is Ki Group Holding Spawhich has accumulated debts for over 1.4 million euros with the state and other social security bodies.
No rescue plan proposed
The Holding lawyers had put themselves back to the decision of the judges, after the hearing had been set to discuss “the inadmissibility of the application for access” to the composition in white and the application for the opening of the bankruptcy procedure. Almost six months ago the spa had asked for an agreed in white and new protection measures, ensuring that a rescue plan would be presented within 60 days.
Which does not happen since they were not presented “neither the proposal nor the plan agreednor the appeal for the approval of the renovation agreement “or other” crisis regulation tool “.
Among the major creditors of Ki Group Holding there are the failure of bionatures, a company always in the food sector that was once part of Bioeraand the failure of Penta Transport. For Santanchè, among other things, a previous bankruptcy charge had gone to storage, at the request of the prosecutors, in the first tranche of the investigation into the editorial group Visioni Visibilia, because the publisher Spa had saved himself from the crash and then ended up in judicial administration, decided by the civil court.
All the accusations of the minister
That the epilogue would be this already understood from the hearing of 29 May, where it emerged with neatness that it would come to the bankruptcy. Yet another for Santanchè, who can bring new judicial grains for the senator, already on trial also for false budget and which risks another indictment for aggravated scam to INPS in two distinct strands of the Visibilia case.
The failure of Ki Group Holding is added to that of two other companies controlled in the past by Santanchè: Ki Group and Bioera. Both were part of the same group that also controlled Ki Group Holding, which Santanchè managed with the former partner Giovanni Canio Mazzaro Between 2019 and 2021.
The Milan court launched the judicial liquidation for Ki Group in January 2024, citing a liability of over 8.6 million euros. For the failure of Ki Group Santanchè is investigated for bankruptcy fraudulent. Last December the judicial liquidation of Biora was then ordered, which according to the judges accumulated a debt of over 8 million euros.
Santanchè on trial also for defamation
And always today, the monochrome court of Rome has ordered the judgment for the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè, for the charge of defamation To the detriment of Giuseppe Zeno, minority shareholder of the Company Visibilia Editore Spa.
The story is linked to some statements made by the parliamentarian during a information in the Senate of 5 July 2023 in relation to the investigation into the company involving Santanchè. The charges are reported the statements that according to the Rome prosecutor’s office fall into the crime of defamation. Referring to Zeno, the minister says that the financier had moved the accusations to the senator “only after having tried to force me to agree unacceptable agreements for me”. The civil party that was present in the classroom expressed on the judge’s decision.
