Newspaper Libero , budget in deep red . Now the state does not pay moreAfter a series of judgments, the publishing department has withheld funds and also calls for return of 15.7 million euro . So in the accounts of the newspaper has opened a hole of 42 million euro . And now the last hope is the appeal to the European Court . Or the patronage of the group AngelucciMarco Lillo | August 29, 2013Comments ( 654 )Maurizio Belpietro
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Red alert for the accounts of newspaper Libero. The 2012 budget photographing a dramatic situation : 5 million copies in less than on an annual basis and advertising down to 1.5 million euro . And the Publishing Department of the Presidency of the Council denies contribution of 34 million euro . The share has fallen below threshold and administrators are asking shareholders to pay the missing.
Blame AGCOM , the authority to guarantee communications. For years, the Publishing department has avoided seeing that behind two newspapers funded , Free and The Reform , there was the same subject , the group Angelucci . After a fine of AGCOM , the State asked money back and stopped payments for the future. In the management report of the company Editorial Libero Srl President Arnaldo Rossi explains that , after two decisions of the Council of State , the Department will not pay the € 18.3 million requested for the period 2008-2010 and also wants back 15.7 million euro unduly received by Libero between 2006 and 2007. They are still 4.8 million requested for 2011 and 4,000,000 in 2012 nothing is known . Adding up the millions to be returned , those who will never arrive and those on the brink, missing 42 million euro .
A hole that threatens to suck the head founded in 2000 by Victor Felts and cost taxpayers up to 39 million Euros until 2007 , complained about Panorama as the director Maurizio Belpietro , then became director of its Free and member of the board of the company. Total revenues in 2012 were down 23 percent and Libero continues to pay salaries ( EUR 8.5 million the cost of labor ), thanks to the generosity of Tosinvest group , active in the health sector and founded by the deputy PDL Tonino Angelucci . Editorial Available sole shareholder Fondazione San Raffaele , founded by Tosinvest . The patron Tonino Angelucci is investigated, with the president of Free Arnaldo Rossi, for forgery and aggravated fraud for undue public funds by the department Publishing . On June 27, his company suffered a seizure of 20 million Euros .
The director Maurizio Belpietro threw in the towel : June 5 last year, the director , in a conference call with the shareholders' meeting that was held in Rome , has resigned from the board . In its place came an old friend of Angelucci : Carlo Lancella . The prosecutor Henry John Woodcock, then in power , had intercepted and investigated in 2003. He wanted to arrest him because he suspected that he had created a criminal organization dedicated to influence appointments and contracts in Rome. Allegations not found and the investigation was closed. Angelucci comes from UIL , Lancella took his first steps in the CISL . In interceptions in 2003 reports emerged of Free neoconsigliere with prominent members of the Democratic Party of former area CISL , the chairman of the Post Office , John Ialongo , Sergio D' Antoni and Franco Marini. For his 70th birthday , his friend Franco, Lancella gave a Rolex thirties who - according to his statements overheard by Woodcock - worth € 20,000 , although Marini not imagine its value. Lancella after having been all the rage in the nineties in the cleaning industry together with the former owner of the Perugia Luciano Gaucci , now it launches in publishing. The society of Angelucci - as the President Rossi in his report to the shareholders - has lost twice in front of the administrative justice : " The Consigiìo of State declared inadmissible by judgment of 31 January 2013, the appeal for cancellation pursuant to art. 106 ( third degree , ed) filed by the Company against the judgment ( second degree , Ed) filed April 16, 2012 . " The economic situation has plummeted : " Overall, the balance sheet risk associated with the possible final negative outcome resulted from the survey NRA by the Company would amount to a total of approximately EUR 34 million , resulting in significant effects on the balance sheet and economic finanzlario of society. " Administrators would have to rewrite Available budgets , but they are hanging on a hope : "The Company - writes Rossi - submitted on 5 February 2013 an appeal before the European Court of Human Rights ." Since " the risk appears likely that the final outcome of the procedure may lead to negative bias for the contributions in the publishing deadline, " the company has asked for a publisher of Free indemnity to Angelucci . The Luxembourg holding company of the group, the spa Lantigos SCA , is committed to " indemnify and hold harmless the Editorial Libero Srl loss that may arise from the release and / or exclusion of contributions up to a maximum of 90 per cent " .
The 2012 budget closed with losses of one million and 871 thousand euro and the president Rossi asks members to immediately put your wallet because " as a result of such loss , the share capital has decreased by over a third ." Despite the crisis, Free has not given up a new car for 33 000 euro enriching the fleet up to 189 thousand euro . As if that were not enough , the Free Editorial suffered a small sentence in the story of the corruption of Bari Raffaele Lease by the son Tonino Angelucci , Gianpaolo . " The Court of Bari on 02/13/2013 - writes the President Rossi - ordered the Company to pay the fine of 2600 € in addition to the costs of the proceedings (...) considering it guilty of administrative violations of Articles 21:25 D. Decree 231/ 01 " .
Free is becoming burdensome for the Angelucci . To keep up the cabin had to shell out , in 2012, as many as 17 million. In January 2012, there was a capital increase of € 7 million , fully paid by the sole shareholder , the foundation of the San Raffaele Angelucci . Another 10 million have served as advances for the guarantee on the contributions and Rossi writes , " further advances will be reasonably paid in 2013 ." Thanks to these sums " despite the current difficulties at the time , not experienced delays in payment of wages ."
In short, Belpietro and the other 81 employees receive their salary on time thanks to the patronage of the PDL deputy who handles with ease clinics, Ferrari and newspapers. Tonino Angelucci is investigated also for the millions obtained from its clinics in Lazio, but intrepid Free launches campaigns against waste of Health , not to mention the trouble of Puglia Gianpaolo or loss of revenue challenged Tonino for clinics Lazio. Free has always criticized the state that gave him wasteful , unlawfully , the money to survive. With Angelucci is more difficult to bite the hand that you eat .