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ROME - The story moves searches in Rome, Milan, London, which has ravaged the second Italian industrial group , is at present a history of corruption. Where, if the reconstruction proposal arises from the prosecutors Giuseppe Cascini and Rodolfo Sabelli is correct, dancing a bribe of 97 million euro in the spring of 2005, over the phone company Wind, then controlled by Enel, the financier Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris and his "Orascom" for a nominal price of € 12.5 billion (5 fewer than in 1997, Enel had cost the start-up of Wind). Those 97 million euro - is the assumption - in fact serve to convince the management Enel to remove the Americans from the negotiation of "Blackstone" is actually more competitive in offering assurances that economic techniques, and to oil the wheels of politics. A
Despite a seemingly clear opening words, the deal is complex and least controversial moves and appear on the backgrounds of its protagonists. In May 2005, the then chief executive of Enel (Eni's number one today), Paolo Scaroni, announced that the negotiations for the sale of Wind is closed to the mutual satisfaction of buyer and seller (the contract will be signed in August). Sawiris fact raises 300 million offering of "Blackstone" and closes the purchase of the phone company to 12.2 billion euro. The financial operation has two directors: the banks and a man named Alessandro Benedetti, a man who moves in the shadow of Forza Italy, who has known the prison in '96, under investigation by the Attorney Milan for bankruptcy (escapes conviction in 2007 for prescription), and home portfolio in London, offices, formerly in Palazzo Odescalchi, in Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome (the company "Managest). Benedetti provides the corporate vehicle under whose control will pass Wind "the Weather Investment, the Luxembourg-based company of which he is president and which has the same socio Sawiris.
But above all, defines (through the "Managest) the architecture of a purchase contract in which the service provider has a peculiarity. Enel receives from the sale of € 2.9 billion cash, gaining the same time a 5 percent stake in the same "Weather".
seems he should not talk anymore. Until, on May 17 last year, Paul Mondani signature "Report" Milena Gabanelli a television ("The Mystery of the Pharaoh") in which a witness, who asked to remain anonymous, report a run of dull ' Enel in talks with Sawiris. Wind and Enel protesting vigorously for a representation of the facts which they say is imprecise and suggestive. The Public Prosecutor of Rome opened an investigation against unknown persons.
Prosecutors acquire financial records of the transaction and capture the ones that show two significant anomalies. The first is the entry of Enel in the capital of the "Weather Investment." Why - ask - instead of Enel choose the easiest way to retain a minority shareholding in Wind, decided to underwrite a capital increase of the buyer company, acquired a stake? The answer you give is very bad news for Enel and Sawiris. Because just as contrived, the contract of sale - watch - allows the Egyptian financier not to spend a single euro cent from their own pockets. Enel recognizes the cost of a transaction (transaction fee) for the operation amounted to 414 million euro. Ie the sum total of EUR 317 million of charges for the line of bank credit to get turned on by Sawiris in person in the game and € 97 million recognized Benedetti - who of "Weather" is the president - by way of advice.
The second anomaly is the fate of those 97 million €. Benedetti - for what the prosecutor's investigation would be established by documents - bounces several times that money through a chain of companies and offshore accounts, dividing it for the benefit of end users whose identity, status, still would not have come at the head for sure . But they do conclude the prosecutor that the sum is less than all that advice and, on the contrary, very much like a bribe.
received from whom? Pending the results of searches giving an answer document or not, the two prosecutors in Rome have in hand some testimony not yet decided which accuses the former chief financial officer and now chief executive of Enel, Fulvio Conti, and a witness suddenly reticent, now entered in the register of suspects for the crime of false information to the public prosecutor. His name is Tommaso Pompei. It 'was the managing director of "Tiscali", but it was mainly at the time of sale Sawiris, CEO of "Wind". The prosecutor found that Pompeii is the mysterious witness "Report".
Play audio complete (so that not even aired) of his interview with the opacity Mondani in which the complaint refers to management's Enel and kickbacks to the policy, indicating Benedetti (the consultant € 97 million) the man who would have dealt. Yet, at the time of the interrogation, Pompei backtracks. Even before the evidence of the recording, claims to have been "misinterpreted".
gains, as mentioned above, entry in a register of suspects, and finally convinced the prosecutors in Rome are on the right track. So knock it necessary to begin with, even at the door of Cirafici Salvatore, a former police officer, security chief Wind (his offices were raided yesterday), already appeared in the Telecom affair and now believed to be the custodian of information able to explain some crucial passages of this story. Starting with the moves curiously imprecise in Pompeii during the course of negotiations for the sale of Wind, when, having argued with conviction, "Blackstone," marry the cause Sawiris, leaning just Benedetti and his "Managest. Finally the role and figure of Louis Gubitosi, a former Fiat manager shown the door by Marchionne, called the new "Wind" to the role of finance director and now, in fact, investigated for corruption along with Benedetti, Sawiris and Conti.
(February 29, 2008)
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