« I'm calm , my father was the eighth son of peasants. Today he's gone, I still miss him and he taught me two things: if you don't hurt don't be afraid, if you don't steal you don't have to hide. I am calm and relaxed, I am only sorry as a mother who suffers because my son cannot understand, but I am resilient and calm". Thus the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè , in reference to the Report investigation into her entrepreneurial activities and in particular on the management of the Visibilia and Ki Group companies.
QUESTION FROM THE PD - The Rai broadcast service has triggered political controversies and harsh attacks by the centre-left. The Democratic Party, through Senator Antonio Misiani, presented a question to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and to Ministers Calderone and Urso, to ask "what urgent initiatives the Government intends to adopt in order to shed light as soon as possible on the serious facts concerning the owner of the Ministry of Tourism which, beyond their possible civil and penal implications, are not worthy of the discipline and honor that should characterize the actions of a minister of the Republic».
THE INVESTIGATION - "According to the Report investigation and as reported by various newspapers - the senators of the Democratic Party explain in the question - since 2018, when Santanché and Mazzaro, his partner and ex-partner, took over the direct management of the Ki Group company, the latter began to have difficulty paying suppliers and accumulated debts of up to 8 million euros, almost a quarter of its turnover, reporting redundant balance sheets, workers sent home without severance pay, companies in difficulty, or even choked, non-payment of supplies. So much so that in nine years the value of the group has gone from 35 million to 465,000 euros. And while the shareholders paid 23 million euros, the minister received 2 and a half million euros for the corporate offices and the shareholder, Canio Mazzaro, around 6 million euros. Not only".
«From public documents - continues the PD - it appears that the minister, through the real estate company Dani srl, is a shareholder of Ki Group srl and has been the recipient of numerous state aids, including a tax credit of 600 thousand euros and a loan of Invitalia spa equal to 2.7 million euros, as part of the aid connected to the epidemiological emergency from COVID-19, of which the company is now a debtor to the State. Also with regard to the management of the Visibilia companies by the minister, "serious irregularities" were found - the question reads - and "an irreversible income crisis", for which the investigation, opened for fraudulent bankruptcy and false accounting , among others, Minister Santanché is under investigation ».
