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Speak Sergio Cusani, former advisor of the owner of Montedison

"I'll tell you my friend Gardini shot himself to protect Ferruzzi"

"Of course, it was a proud. Of course, he did not resign himself to the humiliation of prison. But I am convinced that Raul Gardini committed suicide in particular to take over , with an extreme gesture of defense, the shame of the charges were about to invest Ferruzzi. And, in particular, it was to love for his daughter Eleanor. They were very attached and she doted on her father. " That July 23, 1993, a Friday, Sergio Cusani lost a friend. And his life was shattered forever. He began the day at the funeral of Gabriele Cagliari, the former chairman of Eni that three days before he committed suicide in prison with a choking plastic bag. During the funeral, he learned that Cusani Gardini took his own life. And three o'clock in the afternoon, he found himself in jail on the orders of the Prosecutor of Milan. Ten years later, the former financier, the man of Ferruzzi, the operator of the tangent Enimont big parties, has come to settle his account with the law. A heavy price. Of all the protagonists of the story Enimont (bankers, managers of state, industrialists, politicians) he is the one who has suffered the heaviest penalty: 5 years and 6 months, four of them spent in solitary. Now, ten years away from that shot that ended the life of his friend Raul, Cusani recounts his memories through the road that led to that tragic choice. It tells of wars and financial ordinary family disputes. And from his point of view includes an overview of bitter experience of Clean Hands. Dr. Cusani, when he met for the last time Gardini?
"A few days before his suicide. He was tried, mentally and physically. I kept on the grill." Who?
"The Milan prosecutor's office. The magistrates refused to meet him. Other entrepreneurs whether they were escaped with a meeting and memorial. Gardini A this was not allowed even though his lawyers insist it was going to make spontaneous statements as had happened to other financiers and industrial. "
And why was this fury just to Gardini?
"He was considered a ring weakness of Italian capitalism. After breaking with the Ferruzzi family had lost much of its power, had no political backing and had no means of mass communication. In short, it was vulnerable. On the other hand Gardini was obtained by hitting a big media impact. "
Can you explain better?
" Exactly. Raul was a character of great popularity. A little 'thanks to the Moor of Venice and the Americas Cup. And then for his impetuous nature. In the collective imagination was the contractor who had dared to challenge the parties and as a giant Eni.
Gardini stop you saying that the food served to newspapers and television?
"What I perceived at once, but I gained during my detention is that the "Clean Hands" investigation was based on the effect the media and every day was provided fresh meat. "
There were also the crimes or not?" Certainly. I myself have accepted my responsibility and I was ready to talk about the perverse relationship between industry and politics. I was told that was not interested. I had to respond to false accounting and illegal financing of political parties. The processes, however, should be used to prosecute crime, but also to reveal the mechanisms of corruption in order to prevent their recurrence. This objective, unfortunately, was not prosecuted. "
Why?
" In part because the judiciary has also played a battle of power. In part because judges like Dr. Antonio Di Pietro did not have enough determination and perhaps lacked the technical and cultural tools to understand these hidden mechanisms. A magistrate prepared as Dr. Francesco Greek, but those tools that they have, in fact it was put aside. "
In the weeks before the suicide Gardini was trying to back into the game by combining its operations with those of the Ferruzzi and Cragnotti. How did? "We worked hard on that project. The objective of the management of Carlo Sama, who became leader of the Ferruzzi after the release of Gardini, was to bring together all the focus sull'agroalimentare. Eridania was to become the holding company of the group. It was a return to origins agribusiness. But the banking system, led by Mediobanca, we denied its support. In those days all the major institutions closed their exposures of the Ferruzzi group. It was a clear signal: our project had to fail. Lost that opportunity, was the collapse ".
She was alongside each other throughout the Gardini Enimont. What does it mean for him?
" It was a stinging defeat. It went very experienced in body and mind. Somatization and suffered the defeat hard. He was in love with the dream of a strong Italian chemicals worldwide. This, Raul was the project Enimont.

Enimont but was also the mother of all bribes, as first revealed to the judges the former president Montedison Giuseppe Garofano. A confession of a few hours that preceded the suicide of Gardini.
"Gardini had no no problem to pay for the parties to achieve its goals. As far as I said all political forces, with the exception of the radicals, have received funding from the Ferruzzi group. This does not mean that Raul did not believe really that project. "
The fact remains that the pole of the chemical was the screen behind which were consumed financial raids of any kind.
'It is true. And I should know. But I also know that since financial markets were in fact an unregulated Wild West. And the policy to regulate the finance avoided because it had a direct benefit in terms funding occult. Now, more than ten years later, poles these regulations have been planted. Many recent events, however, seem to suggest that in recent years, supervisors have been distracted in more than one occasion. "
Wore Enimont?
" Initially the operation Enimont only served to remove some of Montedison chemical activities unprofitable . Then, when he reached an agreement with Eni, Gardini realized that the chemistry could mean in terms of power and could create value by combining the companies how Enimont Himont Ausimont and remained in Montedison.
So what? " He felt more than a protagonist. And the constant media exposure perhaps helped him lose a sense of proportion. I remember one day walking I said, 'You know, the most photographed man of the year. " I laughed, I took it for a joke. He was offended and said curtly: "Look, I'm not joking," he said. Gardini was a man of a very impulsive. Culture typically Romagna with anarchist and anti-system components. He was a batsman free. He had a step backward in the battle over eco-ethanol gasoline (those derived from corn) that questioned the power of multinational oil companies. And sull'Enimont did not hesitate. Relaunched at the end and always stood against all parties. "
everything?
" Yes everyone, including Craxi, which at first was in favor of the escalation Gardini chemistry. I am convinced that in a second stage Craxi prevailed in the fear of delivering too much power in the hands of a family in a country where capitalism was already dominated by families. "
Against this backdrop, the story of Enimont could not finish evil.
"And I'm convinced that it was a disaster for the country system that has lost the opportunity to retain a globally competitive chemical industry. What little is left of the national chemical has swallowed thousands of billions of public money without any concrete results. It 's a decline similar to what is being also the automotive sector. Right now the Bank of solidarity I have promoted is working closely with this issue as a consultant to Fiom-CGIL. The union wants the salvation of Fiat, a big collective heritage. We have therefore proposed a way out that would merge the new Fiat and the Agnelli family holding companies of both the Dutch holding company that controls Fiat Auto. A break with the past in order to focus all resources on the revitalization of the car. "

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On July 20, 1993, President Gabriele Cagliari of ENI was found dead from suffocation, wearing a plastic bag, in the baths of San Victor where he went to take a shower. The 23, three days after the death of Cagliari, at seven in the morning, the mayor of the palace Belgaum is down on the bed, the "pirate" of the Ferruzzi, Gardini had just fired a shot in the head with a Walter PPK.

Cagliari's suicide was due (at least believed) to the scandal that had engulfed the summit of ENI for a big bribe of 17 billion, much of which was paid to almost all political parties at the conclusion of an exclusive agreement between ENI and the insurance company SAI Salvatore Ligresti: thanks to the mega-bribe was made out of the INA. Cagliari for days hoping to be released, so at least he had suggested the PM Fabio De Pasquale, but July 19 was arrested Salvatore Ligresti that had provided a different version than the one provided by the Chairman of ENI. The Milan prosecutors, who feared returning to Cagliari in freedom, could contaminate the evidence and therefore the release order was suspended. The manager reacted badly: the arrest had particularly tried, about ten days earlier he had written to his wife and children in a desperate letter, in which he asked forgiveness for a that it was going to give to family. He had also written a will in which he asked to be cremated. A suicide bomb-proof, and is likely to be exactly what happened.

But it is also true that the letters of despair and threats of suicide are part of the baggage of operations practiced by all prisoners, more or less consciously, to put pressure on judges.

Certainly the disappointment at the lack of freedom, which at one point had seemed imminent, the president of ENI provoked a profound despair. Were very serious controversy that engulfed the pool of Milan magistrates, Borrelli just learned of the suicide of Cagliari burst into tears in the elevator. Just

seventy-two hours later, here is the suicide excellent, indeed most excellent. Raul Gardini the descent had begun the year before, in 1991 when he ousted the management of Ferruzzi and had succeeded his brother in law Carlo Sama and chief Giuseppe Garofano. That morning, late in the day, the magistrates would have to meet to define his situation: There was an arrest warrant, but he hoped to avoid it demonstrated its willingness to cooperate fully.

A lot of worry was the arrest of Giuseppe Garofano, which occurred two days earlier, on 24. At the heart of the charges related to him and Ferruzzi was the "huge" Enimont tangent, about three billion paid to the DC IN Forlani.

A story that Pink knew very well. At seven in the morning, Gardini has already had a shower, it is still in bathrobes when the leading newspapers, cappuccino and a croissant: and it is just as it is going to breakfast and his eye falls on a front-page headline of "Republic" < Tangenti, Garofano accusa Gardini> Raul understands that it's over (at least that the simplest explanation), opens the drawer bedside table and fires a shot in the head.

Gardini leaves no will or letter, except for a note written on a simple "thank you", but then it was discovered that dated from the previous Christmas and the answer was a gift he received from his wife Irina.

But why he was there, in Bela Vista, two men in crisis, the failure of which threatened to overwhelm their families, knowing to be the center of events for which Italy was crumbling at that time, had decided to take her life. Everything here, at least that far, we can tell.



The shadow of the mafia on Gardini reopened the investigation into the suicide
A service Espresso: after investigating the credentials of Caltanissetta Calcestruzzi asked to consider the case of Dia

The Prosecutor's Office has reopened the Caltanissetta ' inquiry into the suicide of Raul Gardini financier. The Express writes on the current issue today. After investigating alleged collusion between the mafia and the Concrete Society, asked the judges nisseni Dia to review the whole case. "The prosecutors - Write the authors - have ordered investigators to start from scratch, without neglecting anything. "In the light of new investigations," the conviction of Cosa Nostra pm has been to determine the disappearance of the "Farmer" who challenged the finance and politics. "
There are at least two elements of the crime scene investigators do not fully convinced of the hypothesis suicide. Thus, a further study was requested because ballistics, writes L'espresso quoting judicial sources," the gun fired two shots , a way unusual for a suicide, especially since no one felt the detonations and only several minutes after the body was found in a pool of blood. "The prosecutor took the Caltanissetta into consideration the note left by the Gardini family with the words "Thank You": "According to an expert - writes the weekly - could have been written even months before."
The investigation by prosecutors of Caltanissetta is linked to the cases already examined by an old survey of the public prosecutor in Palermo, renamed "criminal system", that "behind the massacres of 1992-93 there was the intention of the Cosa Nostra to prevent any inquiry into the monopoly procurement. "
But now, says The Express, "the judges would enjoy nisseni new facts, since the developments in the reconstruction of relations between Buscemi, godfathers of Palermo at Passo di Rigano and Gardini." In recent days, the investigating judge of Caltanissetta Giovanbattista Tona, at the request of prosecutors, has triggered some of custody orders against the operators of a quarry Nissen and two employees of the company's Concrete, Italcementi Group today. The company was placed under investigation for criminal association and false accounting.

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Espresso Two shots fired from his gun. The pressures of the men of Riina. And the link with the killing of Borsellino. That's why the investigation was reopened into the death

When the last day of June 1992 Leonardo Messina agreed to cooperate with the prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, 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." At first it was transcribed with the '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, the Italian leader in the field owned by the still 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 had reopened the file of the Ros 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 lire," Wallet said in the aftermath of the 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. It is one of the fronts we are working on. "The Sicilian prosecutor did not have time to go ahead: 19 days after he was swept away in Via d'Amelio dall'autobomba. A year later, Gardini also left the scene. Two deaths according to the prosecutor 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 what has been our determination to 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 investigators from the DIA 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 Attorney Caltanissetta starts from an assumption old, 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 Cosa Nostra to prevent each survey Monopoly contracts. 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 to 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, clerk Calcestruzzi 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 IP storage 'systems criminals' prosecutors wrote: "Already in 1991 they opened their own investigation and disturbing scenarios if they had been carried out on the completeness and timeliness, by bringing to in a precise temporal and political environment would have a disruptive impact on Italian political and economic system 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.



many ghosts in Sicily, in which Sergio Cusani has never given credit: "The Concretes enjoyed absolute autonomy Panzavolta because Lorenzo had created and operated as an autocrat," he said in an interview: "A a point, after an attack, he jumped out the name of this Buscemi. Gardini was very annoyed by this story and within the group opened an investigation. Cusani Panzavolta presented Buscemi recalled that "as a manager of the company bought in Sicily." E Gardini describes upset, so much to get rid of the thinking, "I said, 'Sell the Concretes, and so I also sell Panzavolta'." But it was something I could do Gardini? You could say no to the shareholders of Palermo? And you could dismiss Panza, former partisan commander who held Romagna relations between Ferruzzi and the PCI, but also managed the national procurement of large family of Ravenna?