“Lack of impartiality”, “conflicts of interest”, cost x-rays and then “a fine of 44 million for Meta that did nothing”: after the preview of the last days, the Report returned to the indictment in the evening against the Privacy Guarantor, despite the resistance of the Authority, which on Saturday hoped that the investigation into the Meta smart glasses in particular would not go live because it was “without any basis”, excluding any hypothesis of damage to the treasury.
“Once again the reality of the facts has been misinterpreted”, added college member Agostino Ghiglia in the afternoon, which this time was the highlight of the program of meetings with managers of Meta institutions in Italy, in October 2024, before the Authority’s decision on the fine. “The report documents a series of irrefutable facts about what happened”, answers Ranucci, who underlines in the episode: “In the last few days, two members of the Guarantor have tried to talk to us, one is Agostino Ghiglia, with a warning, the other is Professor Ginevra Cerrina Feroni who is said to have called directly to top management”.
The program is in line with elements anticipated in recent days, with the reconstruction of the fine of 150 thousand euros imposed in the Authority Report for the audio broadcast between the former minister Sangiuliano and his wife Federica Corsini, preceded by Ghiglia’s visit to the FdI headquarters. And then the alleged conflict of interest of the members of the Authority, including the president Pasquale Stanzione, in particular for the relationship with the Sica family of the lawyer Sangiuliano, but also with Link Campus University, involved in the appeal “which he chose for a simple caveat: it is proof – charges Ranucci – that the Guarantor’s hand is ‘dual’, fur with friends, lead with enemies of friends as well as the reference party”.
Also targeted are the Authority’s costs, salaries, business travel, expenses, reimbursements “also for fitness and laundry costs”. And the case of the sexist site Phica.net: despite reports from 17 women, “Guarantors – Ranucci accused him – understood too late that it was a sexist site: they never intervened to either block or report the site”. Then there is room for the story of the Meta smart glasses and the meeting between Ghiglia and the manager of the Meta institution in Italy. “Maliciously and falsely insinuating” that “I had any role in the possible reimposition of sanctions is an act of pure defamatory intent,” Ghiglia warned before the episode. “Nothing was misconstrued,” Ranucci replied.
“If the fine hypothesized by the same technical department is 44 million, then it becomes 12.5 million, then 1 million also falls within the statute of limitations even if the guarantor knows the deadline, constitutes a loss for the treasury, not decided by Ghiglia or others but by the Court of Auditors. We will see if and when we see the documents we will decide whether to investigate”.
The episode opens with investigations into appointments in the field of culture – and in particular into the ministry’s choices in the advisory commission for theater and circus and related funding allocations – and into the Anti-Mafia commission chaired by Chiara Colosimo, who was interviewed by the program. The report – as anticipated on social media – shows a photo from 2015 depicting Fdi deputies in the foreground with a statue of Benito Mussolini (and with Pamela Perricciolo): “I am very sorry – comments Colosimo – I went on my first trip down memory lane at school and since then I have never had sympathy for Mussolini, I don’t think he will ever be forgiven for the racial laws. I have never seen this photo. I am also amazed that I took it”.
In the interview Colosimo also returned to another photo, which was again discovered by Report – which saw him next to Luigi Ciavardini, the former Nar who was definitively convicted of the Bologna massacre. The president of the Anti-Mafia commission recalled that he “met Ciavardini as part of an initiative regarding the activities of inmates in prison. But the shot did not show any adherence to Ciavardini’s ideas, on the contrary I condemn his path”. As for revisionist efforts to address the Bologna massacre verdict, “there is belief, there are procedures that establish the facts and there is a society that pays its fair bill,” he explained.
“President Meloni also acknowledged the sentence on several occasions and condemned what happened in Bologna. We have condemned and will continue to condemn subversive right-wing exponents who have committed very serious crimes such as those of the Bologna massacre.” As for Paolo Colosimo’s uncle, who was convicted of acting as an intermediary between Gennaro Mokbel and the ‘ndrangheta gang, the Anti-Mafia president confirmed that he “no longer has any relations with him” since his arrest.
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