There Prosecutor of Milantogether with the Special Currency Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza, is investigating regarding the Sale of Actions of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Sienacarried out by the MEF last November, to a limited group of subjects connected in other operations or present in the capital of other banking realities.
The investigations of the Prosecutor
The prosecutor put the sale of a share of 15% of the capital of Banca MPS, carried out by the MEF last November, for a collection of approximately 1.1 billion euros, as part of the process of progressive disposal of public shares. The operation would participate a restricted group of subjectsconnected to each other or involved in other operations, which thanks to the acquisition of these actions, would have positioned themselves well in the capital of Siena.
Among these Banco BPMthe Institute led by Giuseppe Castagna under Unicredit’s shot, which detected 5% of MPS capital. The other subject is Soulwhich detected 3%, arriving with the shares already in his possession to 4% of the capital of the Sienese bank. Then there is the entrepreneurial duo, very active in the banking sector, Dolphinholding of the old family, and the group Caltagirone. Both detected 3.5% of Mps.
The operation was managed by Banca Akroswhich is headed by Banco Bpm. For this the GDF in recent days has carried out document acquisitionsnot a real search, to collect useful elements to the investigation.
The hypotheses of crime
The point is that the Prosecutor has opened a real criminal proceedingsregistered in the general register of crime news, believing that there are extremes to investigate. The file walks in parallel with respect to the one opened by the Prosecutor following a complaint for the defamation of Mediobanca, which is currently without suspects or hypothesis of crime.
The connotations of the operation and the subjects involved, linked by convergent interest or present simultaneously in the captale of atre realities such as Mediobanca and Generali, suggest one “Concert action“Among the interested parties, which feeds the suspicion of Around the rules of transparency and disturbance of the balance of the market, with the fumus of manufacture and other financial crimes.
Unicredit denies exposed
“Unicredit did not present any complaints to the Milan prosecutor. Nor did he present any exposed in relation to Delfin and Caltagirone, “said a spokesman of the Bank of Piazza Gae Aulenti, in relation to what is trapped by judicial sources regarding the investigations concerning the sale of MPS shares.
French annoyes
In Francemeanwhile, the temperature rises and a call for Francesco MilleriCEO of Essilorluxottica, for the axis that binds him to Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, judged “reckless” and not consistent with the interests of the shareholders of the Italian-French luxury holding he led.
According to the rumors collected by Lettera43, Eric Lombardcurrent French finance minister and former number one of Generali France, would have expressed strong perplexity in interview with Milleri, who would risk the precautionary suspension from the board of the big name of luxury, imposed by AMFthe French market supervision authority, if serious facts emerge that involve him.
