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Popolare Bari, Gianluca Jacobini arrested for the crash of some companies of the Fusillo Group

Marco e Gianluca Jacobini overwhelmed by a new investigation into Banca Popolare di Bari and by new precautionary measures together with Vito e Giacomo Fusillo, the builders of Noci. The investigation concerns the bankruptcy of the companies Fimco and Maiora, which were part of the Fusillo business group.

House arrest was ordered for Gianluca Jacobini and Giacomo Fusillo, while Vito Fusillo and Marco Jacobini were banned for one year. House arrest was also ordered for Nicola Loperfido (former executive of the Popolare), Vincenzo Elio Giacovelli (director of Melograno Eventi), Girolamo Stabile (representative of investment funds with offices abroad), Salvatore Leggiero (real estate developer from Campania, representative of Roma Trevi). The contested accusatory hypotheses are fraudulent bankruptcy and self-laundering.

Marco and Gianluca Jacobini had already been arrested in January, as part of the investigation into the collapse of the Banca Popolare, for which they are currently on trial, with allegations of false accounting and obstruction to supervision. For both, the measure of house arrest has recently been replaced with an interdicting one: for Marco it is forbidden to stay in Bari and for Gianluca to stay in Polignano.

The Fusillo investigation – carried out by the economic-financial police unit of the financial police (headed by colonel Luca Cioffi) and coordinated by the vicar prosecutor Roberto Rossi and from the pm Lanfranco Marazia – revolves around the bankruptcy of the companies Fimco and Maiora and the subsequent transfer of shares and funds in companies controlled by the same entrepreneurs of Noci.

According to the hypotheses of the investigators, the People’s Bank would have granted credit to the Fusillos, although aware of the absolute inability to return. In this way the debt of the entrepreneurs would have reached about 340 million. Fusillo and “the dominant banking partner – is written in the court order Luigia Lambriola – they would have operated according to an opaque strategy, shifting significant segments of assets in favor of third economies, such as investment funds with offices abroad, of which Banca Popolare di Bari and the Fusillo group directly or indirectly secured control. In this way, the assets stolen from companies that have gone bankrupt today remained in the hands of the proponents of the illicit initiative “.

According to the judge, “we have come to the progressive building of what we can call a gigantic debt house”. This debt house would have been “through a myriad of suspected extraordinary intercompany transactions – writes the investigating judge – almost always artificially supported by convenient appraisals, drawn up by compliant professionals as well as fraudulent asset segregations functional to the continuous drainage of liquidity, under whose weight, in an unsustainable reality for years, the foundations of the Fimco and Maiora groups were disintegrating, both of which went bankrupt in September 2019, leaving something like 430 million euros of consolidated debts on the field, of which over 78 million pending ascertained towards the tax authorities and institutions public social security “.

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