Arezzo prosecutors on Monday
sent to trial 14 former managers of the Banca Etruria bank for
culpable bankruptcy.
They include Pierluigi Boschi, father of former minister
Maria Elena Boschi.
It is the first time he has been sent to trial for the
bankruptcy of the Tuscan lender of which he is a former top
manager.
This branch of the probe is a secondary one and regards
consultancies to get a partner for the struggling bank.
Boschi is not a defendant in the separate so-called
'maxi-trial' over the bank's failure.
Maria Elena Boschi is a close ally of former premier and
former centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi.
She is now House caucus leader for Renzi's new centrist
splinter from the PD, Italia Viva (IV).
Boschi was minister for relations with parliament and
constitutional reforms in Renzi's 2014-2016 administration.
She went on to become cabinet secretary for the next PD
premier, Paolo Gentiloni, a former foreign minister who is now
the European commissioner for economic and financial affairs.
Boschi has endured criticism from political opponents and the
rightwing press for Banca Etruria, which collapsed leaving
thousands of bilked small investors and was rescued by the
State.
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