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Raul Gardini (Ravenna , June 7, 1933 - Milan, July 23, 1993) was an Italian businessman.
Raul Gardini (Ravenna, June 7, 1933 - Milan, July 23, 1993) was an Italian businessman.
Early
grow professionally holding entrepreneur Ravenna Serafino Ferruzzi, which is fortunate producing and trading grain and cement, where he became son marrying the daughter Ida. On the death of her father, Gardini became the administrator of the group companies, upon delegation of entrepreneurs from Ravenna four children.
The climb to Montedison
In the eighties, became famous for climbing to Montedison, which becomes contestable business due to some unscrupulous financial operations administrator for Mario Schimberni in his intentions to make a public company Montedison independent of the control exercised Mediobanca. The contestability of Montedison Gardini pushes to buy their shares, with the consent of Enrico Cuccia, who lost control of the petrochemical company.
The birth and the failure of Enimont
Following ENI Gardini realized with the merger of the chemical activities of the two groups, founding Enimont, including ENI and Montedison own 40% each, the remaining 20% \u200b\u200bis in the hands of the stock market. The attempt to Gardini to buy 20% stake in the market leads to the rupture of relations with ENI and the decision to sell its 40% to the latter. Part
the vast amount of money collected is used to pay bribes to the political system that, in deciding the tax exemption of capital gains arising from the payment of part of Montedison activities Enimont dell'Enimont made possible the birth itself.
Death
Later, Gardini is the protagonist of financial speculation and fortunate little unfortunate business decisions that first led him to leave office within the Ferruzzi-Montedison group and then, once uncovered kickbacks generated from the sale of 40% of Enimont suicide. They found him dead in his home in Milan on July 23, 1993. The investigation concluded that he had fired a gunshot to the head, but the reasons and dynamics of the death of the many questions still remain (the gun was found placed on the table, away from the corpse).
Gardini and Sport
Gardini's figure is also linked to sport and in particular the America's Cup, which the Moor of Venice, the boat built by Gardini and funded by Montedison, was the star in 1992. Won the Louis Vuitton Cup, the crew Moro, headed by Paul Cayard, was defeated by America ³ in San Diego (USA). But the world owes much to the Ravenna volleyball Raul Gardini and the Ferruzzi group: the historic epic of Olimpia Teodora Manu Benelli and Sergio Guerra (soybean oil "Theodora" was produced by the Italian Oil & Risi, a subsidiary of Ferruzzi ) in the women's volleyball, the extraordinary years of Il Messaggero Volleyball Karch Kiraly and Steve Timmons (Il Messaggero newspaper was owned by Montedison), until the construction of the beautiful palace of sports named after André De Mauro, director of the Ferruzzi group who died tragically and brother of famous singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, who is on the road from the city that leads to Marina di Ravenna.
boats bearing the name Moor of Venice are nine: the first three were white with green waterline. Another five have competed in Copa America in 1992, and a Maxi of 24 Mt in composites built in Australia later called - The Moro IX.
The history of these famous inbarcazioni in 1976 year when Raul Gardini with the backing of his son, the rich Serafino Ferruzzi, from 'the beginning of the first realizazzione sloop-Mt 20:41.
At the height of fame 'earned through the Moor of Venice, Gardini found himself' convolto in two very serious offenses to merge the company '(Enimont-State) administered by Gardini and Montedison.
Gardini would have paid to politicians, the sum of 152 billion, and he himself would have directly benefited from an over-collected $ 800 billion. This and other aspects
scandal led to the untimely death of Raul Gardini.
Referring to his naval achievements, the American magazine "TIME" (1993) comment so his death: He will be remembered as a brilliant symbol of his time, a captain of industry and a world-class sailor. For this historic
boat international prestige and 'being in California, a professional restoration to bring it back to its former glory. Mr. Aldo Caretti
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CHRONICLE Abducted Cement giant 'Funds for blacks mafia "
Among those arrested the managing director, Mario Colombini
Money bosses, the leaders in cell
Concrete
from our correspondent EXCEPT PALAZZOLO
The interior of the Sicilian society Concrete
CALTANISSETTA - Nineteen days before his death, June 30, 1992, Paolo Borsellino was to discover the secret: "The Concretes spa Totò Riina is concerned," he says sorry Leonardo Messina. But there remained more time to investigate. It took sixteen years to bring out the mysteries of the giant Italian cement. And now, the arrest of the managing director of the Bergamo, Mario Colombini, suggests that this is not just a story of the past, when Riina was free. According nisseni
judges, the heads of the concretes would continue to work alongside the most trusted manager of Cosa Nostra. As a reward for services and investment management company would offer lavish patrons parcels, taken from the funds created by blacks with a double production management. That is, the cost of "mafia" would have been amortized on the concrete for public works: it was declared delivery of a quantity, much less was loaded into the mixer. A former driver
Calcestruzzi arrested in recent months is that the penitent is revealing many secrets to the magistrates, who are not only in Sicily. For this reason, the investigating judge Giovanbattista Tona has ordered the seizure of the entire society and a legacy that amounts to 600 million euro. Together with Colombini, also ended up in handcuffs Fausto Volante, Area Director for Sicily and the Campania region of concrete and two of his former predecessors, Francesco Librizzi and Joseph Laurino.
For all the accusations of fraud, fraud in public supplies and heading fictitious assets, with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the mafia organization. Surveys department of operational police in Caltanissetta Gico and finance have already acquired a great deal of documentation after the latest raids.
Now, the head of the Concrete is a judicial administrator.
But controversy is already in the business world. "If the company does not reflect the latest directives of Confindustria, it should be ousted immediately," says Vincent Divella, company director and chairman of the homonymous province of Bari: "It may be an opportunity to clean up. In the South, the Mafia is still very present, when a company enters into never left it. "
So it would be for the Concretes. "I do not even pay protection money - explained Angelo Siino, Minister of Public Works of the Cosa Nostra, now associate justice - the company was a direct emanation of Buscemi.
were the favorite manager of Riina and Provenzano, the connecting link with the leaders of the concrete in Sicily is not yet clear Raul Gardini had understood as the collusion of his manager.
in Caltanissetta, is another investigation going on for months to find out the real reasons for the suicide baron of Ravenna, in '93. What is certain is that only the mysteries of this story remains in a concrete plant in the heart of Sicily, Riesi.
There, the giant cement arrived in the Eighties. explain the repentant "Riina ordered, we must not disturb them. "
Today, Italcementi says:" Full cooperation with the judiciary, opposition to any contiguity. For some time, the deficiencies identified, had already ceased operations in Sicily. "
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Gardini and godparents of Joseph White and Piero Messina
Two shots fired from his gun.
The pressures of the men of Riina.
And the link with the killing Borsellino.
why the investigation was reopened into the death Totò Riina
When the last day of June 1992 Leonardo Messina agreed to cooperate with the prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, the first mafioso to repent after the massacre in Capaci,
Raul Gardini was still at the helm of the Moor of Venice: the successful entrepreneur who had held Italians glued to TV for live coverage of the America's Cup night, provided by 'his' tv. But
quell'interrogatorio Messina, a small boss on the shocking revelations by the global network of Cosa Nostra, said bluntly:
"Toto Riina his money keeps them in concrete."
was transcribed beginning with 'c' lower-case as if it were any cement factory, but the man of honor once pointed out:
"I mean Calcestruzzi spa.
That is, the giant public works leader Italian industry possessed the even more powerful Ferruzzi family, but according to this mafia of the province of Caltanissetta, in fact controlled by the godfather more fierce.
Borsellino was struck by these words:
aftermath of the killing of Giovanni Falcone Ros had reopened the file of the monopoly procurement.
A radiograph of the plot between quarrying and construction which is the lung of Cosa Nostra: to build relationships with politicians and with the bourgeoisie of professionals, to create jobs and mark the domain of the territory.
and earn increasingly large sums. "But if there are many people who can riciciclare few billion pounds," said Borsellino aftermath interrogation of Messina, "when you have to invest hundreds of billions there are few willing to do so.
Entrepreneurs important in the mafia do not trust but can not do without.
is one of the fronts on which we are working."
The Sicilian prosecutor did not have time to go ahead: 19 days after he was swept away dall'autobomba Via d'Amelio.
A year later, even Gardini left the scene.
Two dead, according to the prosecutors of Caltanissetta, are directly linked.
nisseni why judges have reopened the investigation on the end of Gardini. And they did so with the conviction that it was to determine what our the disappearance of the 'peasants' who had challenged the finance and politics, then drop everything after the failure of the deal Enimont. Prosecutors have ordered the DIA to the investigators to start from scratch, without neglecting anything. Calling for a new ballistics expert, in the hope that today's technologies can better reconstruct the dynamics of the shot. They do highlighting disturbing hypothesis: the gun fired two shots. One way unusual for a suicide. Especially since no one heard the detonations: according to the reconstruction, only after several minutes the body was found in a pool of blood by the butler. Beside him on the bed, the weapon. On a mobile ticket: the names of his children and his wife, followed by a single word 'Thank you'. A business that, according to an expert, could well have been written months earlier. But the whole crime scene was disturbed by rescuers: can not find some references. For this reason, the prosecutor's office asked the experts clarify the issue of bullets. But it also wants to suffer from Give all family members and actors of those days of July 1993, the summer when the horror of massacres, financial crashes, deaths and arrests excellent changed the history of Italy. The first to be questioned as a witness will Idina Ferruzzi, his wife has never believed in suicide.
The massacre in via D'Amelio's Attorney
old Caltanissetta starts from a hypothesis, already traveled in vain with an investigation dubbed 'criminal systems' and closed with the filing: behind the massacres of 1992-93 there was the intention of what our investigation to prevent any monopoly on procurement. Now the prosecutors of Caltanissetta would enjoy new facts, some still secret, since the developments in the rebuilding of relationships with Buscemi, godfathers of Passo di Rigano: the estate of Salvatore Inzerillo, entrusted to them by Toto Riina in war for the loyalty and in business. Ten years ago it was discovered that the group Gardini and Buscemi were essentially members: each controls 50 percent of the Fins, created for doing business on the island. Then in '97 Fund, created by the collapse of Ferruzzi, sells everything Italcementi. In Sicily, however, according to surveys, the hands of the Mafia are still clinging to the Concretes. A few days ago to end up in prison Riesi boss, Salvatore Paterna, an employee of Concrete Spa, Joseph Ferraro, owner of the quarry and Billiemi Joseph John Laurino, called 'ù Gracciano', responsible for local company. People can keep secrets so provincial that have shaken the elite of Italian finance? Some of the most important repented in the last decade, among them Giovanni Brusca and Angelo Siino, stressed that the issue of the concrete was strategic for the people of Corleone. Falcone and Borsellino also would have moved on the same track. The request for storage investigation 'criminal systems' prosecutors wrote: "Already in 1991 they opened their own investigation and disturbing scenarios if they had been carried out on the completeness and timeliness, supported by a specific temporal context, and environmental policy would have a disruptive impact on the system Italian economic and political even before or simultaneously to Tangentopoli. At stake were billions investments and key relationships for the mafia, who were defended at all costs. But if the bombs had cleared the two men a symbol of Palermo, the pool of Milan was able to move forward. Until July 23, 1993, when Gardini should have been present to answer charges on tangentone Enimont and relations between Ferruzzi and parties. All of which, his lawyers said at the time, was ready to make: until the late evening he had discussed the deposition, showing the determination of the time. The next morning, however, Gardini is found dead. Possible that the pressures of Cosa Nostra have weighed on this gesture? You may have been a murder? I am asking the Dia to use every tool to leave no doubt. And to investigate any possible connection with the bomb in Milan, exploded in the aftermath of the funeral via Palestro. According to the records of the trial, the bombers were wrong to target a few hundred meters. And Palace Belgaum, Gardini residence, was not far away.
(August 10, 2006)
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October 2006
The relationship between Cosa Nostra and Raul Gardini
those ties too long forgotten
Nicole Biondo
The magistrates of Caltanissetta, in possession of new evidence that would confirm the strong similarity between the Ferruzzi Raul Gardini - suicide in 1993 - and Cosa Nostra, recently asked the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department to resume the investigation into the death of the entrepreneur. In fact, ten years ago the pleadings and documents of the departments of excellence of the Guardia di Finanza and the police were talking about the marriage between the company and the Sicilian bosses Ravenna
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Is there any link that connects the parable of Raul Gardini Italian economy in the world and the affairs of Cosa Nostra?
This is the question that the judges of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Caltanissetta, which recently opened a new investigation into the disappearance of Gardini, the owner of the Ferruzzi Group, who committed suicide on July 23, 1993, must comply.
An old story, yet the current white-collar mafia contracts, rigged or monopoly of laundering hundreds of millions of euro through the salons of Italian capitalism.
A story that goes far away and could also shed light on the season stragista of Cosa Nostra: the search for a new covenant with the political power when the First Republic was about to collapse, and with it the old contacts in the mafia.
Because he wants to see the legend at all costs any connection between the glossy world of the financier of Ravenna and the dark of the Mafia is not only based on "is" or the word of repentance. There are
pleadings, a great deal of documentation, coming from places of excellence and the Guardia di Finanza police Sco, which really tell a different story and very strong ties that bind in Ravenna, capital of the Ferruzzi, and the heart Cosa Nostra in Palermo and its province, stronghold of the Corleonesi.
Concrete spa in the heart of the company boss. The
story begins in the 80's. A history of which were certainly aware of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and judicially that ended only in 2002, with the sentencing of the former manager of the Ferruzzi Lorenzo Panzavolta for housing development in unfair competition with members of the mafia.
After the "coup" inside the Dome, the Corleonesi decided a new strategy in the context of public and private, relying on one of the most loyal families, one of Buscemi-Bonura, owner of a company, Calcestruzzi Palermo spa has always been the heart and wallet of the leaders of the Cosa Nostra. Riina was in person to make it into the great game of contracts, and a decade ago Binnu Provenzano even mentioned in his (now famous) pizzini.
The relationship between members of Cosa Nostra and some companies of the Ferruzzi group, wanting to read the sentences, starting from this company in the early 80's.
investigation that saw manager convicted of holding Ravenna, in competition with members of Cosa Nostra, it was found that "the relationship between the group of Ravenna and Buscemi (as regards, Calcestruzzi Palermo spa) beginning in 1982 when Calcestruzzi of Ravenna, managed by Panza Lorenzo, Antonino Buscemi purchases from 40% of the share capital of Cava Eye based in Palermo "Gip Renato Grillo, prosecutor of Palermo, 2 October 1997,
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Enimont all doomed
party funding: Penalties for Forlani,
Pomicino and Martelli. A Sama and Pink 4 years and 8 months
Enimont, all doomed to Craxi
Four years, eight months and six Bossi La Malfa
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party funding: Penalties for Forlani, Pomicino and Martelli. A Sama and Pink 4 years and 8 months TITLE: Enimont, all doomed to Craxi Four years, eight months and six Bossi La Malfa - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LONDON. All condemned for 'Enimont. In a surprise move, the fifth section of the Court delivered yesterday dribbling the sentence 's last opposition. Craxi for 4 years, 4 months to 2 years and Arnaldo Forlani and Paolo Pomicino, a year for Claudio Martelli. Eight months to Umberto Bossi and his treasurer Alessandro Patelli, for the bribe of 200 million. Six months in La Malfa. Harsh punishments for the last board of Montedison, Carlo Sama and Giuseppe Garofano: 4 years and 8 months, more 'than he had requested the indictment of Peter' s farewell. The trial was stopped in February because of instances in the Supreme Court against President Romeo Simi de Burgis.
