Liga’s treasurer Alberto de Roba was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison for embezzlement

New referee for Alberto de Roba, Treasurer of the League After the previous sentence of five years in prison for bid fraud and embezzlement in the investigation of the Lombardia Film Commission. This morning De Roba was sentenced It is punishable by imprisonment of two years and 10 months For embezzlement, with permanent disqualification for public office and forfeiture of €38,000.

De Roba was appointed as a federal official in April Directly from League leader Matteo Salvini. Today, the examining magistrate Natalia Imaricio sentenced the cashier to abbreviated rituals in a part of the investigation that arose precisely from the Lombardia Film Commission case.

This is the case in which, in the context of the main trend, the penalties have already been issued for Andrea Manzoni, former Serie A reviewer in the Chamber, and De Robba with prison terms of 4 years, 4 months and 5 years, respectively. For the case of selling a shed in Kormano, It was bought by the Lombardy Film Commission, from which €800,000 was drained of public funds. The appeals process is set for October.

In the new complex investigation, which ended in March 2022 (against nine people), De Robba, Manzoni and others were charged, for various reasons, with tax offences, embezzlement (for cashier only) and bankruptcy. Under the magnifying glass is the issue of embezzlement related to the Areapergolesi company, contested against de Robba and the director of the company itself, Giuseppe Degrandi, who has already negotiated a plea bargain. According to the indictment, when the Northern League was president of the Liverpool Football Association, It would have allocated, between 2015 and 2018, just over 38 thousand euros From the LFC to the current account of Ra.ma.tex spa, a real estate owner company.
Money equal to savings obtained by Areapergolesi
The Region of Lombardy engaged a public body by virtue of reducing the rent on that property, which in practice, according to the plaintiffs, was assigned to the LFC.

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