Moby CEO Achille Onorato was summoned this morning to the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office by prosecutor Walter Cotugno.
The entrepreneur, son of Vincenzo Onorato, is under investigation as part of the inquiry into ferry tickets given as gifts to coast guard officials, but no action has been requested for him .
Accused of corruption - at the center of the case are the connections with Sardinia - he appeared at the Prosecutor's Office with the lawyer Pasquale Pantano and did not answer the investigators' questions. Tomorrow morning, however, the preventive interrogations will continue before the judge Silvia Carpanini for the suspects for whom the Prosecutor's Office has requested precautionary measures (2 house arrests and 11 interdictions).
In the past few weeks, other defendants had already been heard and had claimed that the free tickets were just "a common custom among all airlines" , a sort of gift that had nothing to do with corruption.
The interrogations will end on April 30, then the judge will decide with a single provision whether or not to accept the requests for precautionary measures. According to the prosecution, the company's ships did not meet the requirements set by international environmental regulations: some components of the main engines and diesel generators were tampered with or replaced with non-original spare parts and, therefore, did not comply with the regulations, which were circumvented with false certifications reported in the registers or through the counterfeiting of the authentication signs of competence of the public authorities.
In recent weeks, the Prosecutor's Office had requested and obtained the preventive seizure of three ferries for a value of over 64 million. From this first strand a second tranche of investigation was born, involving about forty people including magistrates, law enforcement officers and high-ranking officials of the Prefectures, who would have benefited from the free tickets for Sardinia and Sicily.
(Online Union)
