The Milan prosecutors closed the investigation against the former leaders of Mps, accused of accounting fraud and market manipulation in connection with the 2009 accounts of the institute, approved in 2010. “Guilty”, according to the indictment , of having concealed losses of more than 300 million euro.
The document was served to former President Joseph Mussari, the strong man of the Democratic Party within the group. And yet, to Antonio Vigni, former general manager, Gianluca Baldassarri, “old” head of finance, Sadeq Sayeed, former CEO of the investment bank Nomura International and Raffaele Ricci, head of sales for Europe and the Middle East the Japanese group. In addition to the same Monte dei Paschi and Nomura.
The investigation concerns the financial actions aimed at restructuring the derivative Alexandria, owned by the bank red, through a contract between the MPS and the bank Eastern. Prosecutors have no doubt, hundreds of millions would be hidden and not reported in the income statement of the group oldest in the world, ended 31 December 2009.
It is certainly not a judgment, but only the prologue to a possible (and likely) request for indictment. That will come in the next months, when the ball will go to the judge of the preliminary hearing. To decide whether the suspects should go or not in the dock.
The notice to end investigations by pm meneghini comes after the transfer of the case by the prosecution of Siena, who had started the investigations in 2012, to the Lombard (territorial jurisdiction), which took place last year.
One more bad news for Mussari, Vigni and Baldassarri, already convicted – last October – the court Tuscan 3 years and 6 months , with 5 years of disqualification from public office, for obstacle in competition to perform the duties of supervisors. Just in relation to the contract with Nomura and, in particular, its concealment. In a trial with immediate ritual. A first round of a “meeting” long, fragmented.
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