Preliminary hearing before the gup of Milan Chiara Valori for Alberto Genovese, a web entrepreneur accused of having raped two models after having made them unconscious with a mix of drugs: one, 18, during a party organized on 10 October two years ago in her penthouse with a view of the Cathedral and renamed “Terrazza Sentimento”, the other, 23, was her guest in a luxury villa in Ibiza the previous July. Genovese asked to be tried with an abbreviated procedure.
The businessman, who is detoxifying himself in a home-based clinic, was in the classroom but did not make any statements to reporters. The two girls victims of the alleged abuses remain in the trial as civil parties and no negotiations on any compensation outside the trial have been successful.
The ex-girlfriend, accused of complicity in the violence on the Spanish island, also asked to be tried in abbreviated form. By June 1, the other parties will be able to submit observations on the documents that the defense of Genovese will deposit (psychiatric report, medical reports and toxicological analyzes and material extracted from devices and social profiles) and to which the defense itself has conditioned the request for an alternative rite.
The non-profit organization "Svs Donna Aiuta Donna", DiRe, was also constituted as civil parties before the GUP. and another non-profit association, “Bon't worry”, while the agency of
models where one of the victims worked.
During the investigations Genovese has always claimed to have acted under the effect of cocaine and ketamine of which he said he was "a slave" and explained to the investigators that he never perceived "particular dissent" from the young women who were equally "altered" .
In another line of investigations he is accused of tax crimes: according to the Supreme Court which confirmed a seizure of 4.3 million, the holding Auliv "for the purpose of evasion", to "manage the financial flows deriving from his activities and shareholdings "and to" provide the resources necessary for his personal activities ", including" the purchase and renovation of the villa in Ibiza "for 8 million euros and" luxury and consumer goods ", such as "large purchases of alcohol".
(Unioneonline / lf)