Italy's supreme court of Cassation on
Tuesday confirmed the seizure of 3.5 million euros in assets
from former Lower House Speaker Irene Pivetti, formerl of the
Northern League (now just League) on charges of tax evasion and
money laundering.
Finance police notified Pivetti and six other people in November
that Milan prosecutors have concluded a probe into alleged tax
fraud, money laundering and self laundering.
This notification is frequently served before prosecutors
request indictments.
The rally driver Leonardo Leo Isolani is also among the
suspects.
Finance police also seized four million euros in assets last
year
as a preventative measure in relation to the case.
The case regards allegedly wrongdoing dating back to 2016 and
involving operations by a company belonging to Isolani, who has
a racing team, allegedly aimed at hiding assets from the tax
authorities.
Only Italia, a company chaired by Pivetti, allegedly had
a brokering role.
One of the suspect operations regards the sale of three
Ferraris.
Isolani allegedly sold all the assets of a company that was in
debt to the tax authorities for several million euros in order
to empty it.
These assets allegedly went to a San Marino based firm owned by
Isolani and then to a Hong Kong company alleged linked to
Pivetti.
The assets were then allegedly sold on to the Daohe group of
Chinese magnate Zhou Xi Jian.
Pivetti, 59, Pivetti (born 4 April 1963 in Milan) is an Italian
journalist, television presenter and politician. She was
President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996,
the youngest ever Lower House Speaker, at the age of 31.
After leaving politics, she started a career in television, like
her sister Veronica, a popular Italian actress.
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