One year and eight months: that is the sentence requested by Deputy Prosecutor Eugenio Fusco and Prosecutor Cristian Barilli Chiara Ferragni, accused by his former right-hand man Fabio Damato and Francesco Cannillo, president of Cereitalia, for fraud exacerbated by the use of IT in connection with a case of alleged misleading advertising Pandoro Balocco Pink Christmas and Dolci Preziosi Easter eggs. Influencer arrived this morning at Court of Milan thus avoiding the cameras and paparazzi flashes that were waiting for him that dayclosed session. Defenders of digital entrepreneurship, who always do rejected the accusationis expected to speak at the next hearing scheduled for December 19. Meanwhile, judge Ilio Mannucci Pacini was summoned to deliver his opinion on the request for a civil lawsuit by the association “La casa del consumer”, which rejected the compensation proposed by the defense.
The influencer, the defense always claims, did not commit any crime, and is the responsible party Courier “Hthe administration has been closed and a donation of 3.4 million euros has been made.” The different picture presented by prosecutors is different, in that the digital entrepreneur defrauded followers and consumers with alleged unfair profits of around 2.2 million euros derived from the sale of pandoro and Easter eggs, but the price did not include the advertised charity funds. In more detail, “operation Balocco” will occur caused “an unspecified number of buyers to make a mistake” confident that with the purchase they will contribute to raising funds for the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin. Prosecutors argue that the agreement would have turned out differently: the influencer company will raise “more than one million euros to advertise charity initiatives via Instagram where the Balocco company has allocated 50 thousand euros to the hospital, regardless of sales” we read on Messenger of God. By the time the controversy arose, Ferragni had spoken of a “communication error,” which would also occur in the second contested case. “Everything we have done we have done in good faith, none of us has taken advantage,” wrote the Rome newspaper regarding the meaning of spontaneous statements made in the courtroom by Chiara Ferragni. The next chapter of this story will be written on December 19 and January, when sentences are expected to be handed down.
