The two proceedings against the parents of the former prime minister were brought together in a single trial Matteo Renzi, Tiziano Renzi and Laura Bovoli. This was decided by the judge of the court of Florence, Fabio Gugliotta, during a hearing in the trial in which Renzi and Bovoli are accused of fraudulent bankruptcy and use of invoices for non-existent transactions. A collateral one has been added to this trend, in which the Renzi family and their daughter Matilde have been sent for trial following another investigation relating to alleged tax crimes that would have been committed in the management of the family company Eventi 6 srl of Rignano sull’Arno. The decision was made by the judge at the request of the parties.
During today’s hearing, at which Renzi senior was present, one of the employees of the company was heard as a witness Delivery Service Italia cooperative company, one of the co-ops that ended up at the center of the investigation “Tiziano Renzi I do not know him, I have never had relations with him, I only know him because I saw him on television “, said the man, modifying his statements with respect to what was stated by the Fiamme Gialle who questioned him January 31, 2017. At the time, as he was pointed out today in the courtroom by the prosecutor Luca Turco, declared that he had been hired by Tiziano Renzi on behalf of Delivery Service. According to the accusation, Tiziano Renzi e Laura Bovolic they were the de facto managers of the service co-ops, using them to increase the volume of business of the family company Eventi 6. Today, when the prosecutor asked him who hired him in the co-op, the man replied that he did not remember, because he was “it’s been a long time“. When he was pointed out that his statements were contradictory to those made to the Guardia di Finanza, he explained that he was wrong when he spoke with the Fiamme Gialle at the time.
The November 2 hearing was devoted to hearing about 30 witnesses, only a part of those mentioned. The first to appear were the bankruptcy trustees of the three failed cooperatives: in addition to the Delivery Service, the Marmodiv and the Europe Service. The wife of one of the defendants was also mentioned among the witnesses, Roberto Bargilli (the one who was the driver of Renzi’s camper at the time of the Primaries of the Democratic Party), who made use of the right not to answer, a possibility provided by law in the event of a family relationship. Instead, he answered the questions, albeit with many “I do not remember”, a niece of Laura Bovoli who was a member of the delivery service board.
The defendants of the main line, in addition to Tiziano Renzi and Laura Bovoli, I’m 14. Among them directors, members of the board of directors of cooperatives and entrepreneurs. With the meeting of the processes, these are added now Matilde Renzi. The Ligurian entrepreneur was also initially investigated in the investigations Mariano Massone, accused of fraudulent bankruptcy, which he has bargained a six-month prison sentence in March 2021. In February 2019, Freemason was placed under house arrest along with the parents of the former premier. Finally, the charges against another defendant, who died during the preliminary hearing, were extinguished. The next hearing was set for November 16.
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