Eredità Agnelli, investigations into the protected December | EUROtoday

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The investigation that revolves across the legacy of Gianni Agnelli reaches the best level of the “pyramid” of the Turin dynasty: that firm, renamed with the title of the final month of the yr, which inside it incorporates like a treasure chest the shares of the three Elkann brothers, which cascade all the way down to the household jewels, Stellantis, Ferrari and Juventus. In reality, Dicembre, the “safe” of the Agnelli household, which by way of the Exor holding firm controls the vast majority of the businesses within the portfolio, additionally formally enters into the investigation of the Turin Prosecutor’s Office into the legacy of Marella Caracciolo, the lawyer’s widow.

The searches

The financiers of the Piedmontese capital, with the authorization of the investigating choose, carried out a sequence of searches in varied legislation corporations (and there’s a new suspect, the Turin notary Remo Morone). To search for paperwork on the corporate, the “yellow flames” knocked on the workplace of Franzo Grande Stevens, authorized historian of the Lawyer, who is just not underneath investigation. The army then inspected the places of work of the Revenue Agency and the Chamber of Commerce.

The speculation of a criminal offense

The Prosecutor’s Office has formulated a brand new speculation of the crime of false ideology exactly in relation to the “declaratory” on the construction of Dicembre, filed with the Office of the Companies Register in June 2021. Under the lens are the switch operations of the corporate’s shares, which is within the palms of the John brothers (60%), Lapo and Ginevra Elkann, Agnelli’s grandchildren. It all began, as is thought, with mom Margherita Agnelli who reported some company anomalies. The consideration of the prosecutors, the truth is, on this new development was centered exactly on the operations that from 2004 to 2019 decided its present composition.

According to the reconstructions of the Prosecutor’s Office, «the contracts with which Marella Caracciolo transferred, in May 2004, the naked possession of roughly 40% of the shares of the aforementioned firm to her grandchildren John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann, reserving for herself the fitting to usufruct” would be “affected by anomalies”. What is it about? The “anomalies” would concern both “the documentary profile, because the reference documentation was discovered to be missing within the originals, incomplete, altered or falsified”, and that of the “monetary relationships between the events”, given the indications “on the absence of the particular fee of the worth of the shares, with consequent reconstruction of the true possession, over time, of the December shares”.

The lawyers’ response

The lawyers of the three Elkanns, who were not involved in the searches, reiterate instead that «the December documents are all legitimate» and, above all, that «the current structure of the company, as well as the role played in it by John Elkann, they reflect the wishes of Gianni and Marella Agnelli, are supported by the entire family and cannot be modified by any legal action.”