Milan, 18 July (LaPresse) – “Yesterday we lodged an application with the Review Court, having noted that Mario Adinolfi’s cooperative attitude was to no avail; during the preliminary hearing, he answered all the questions put to him by the investigating judge and the public prosecutor, without invoking his right to remain silent, as is often the practice.” This was stated in a note by Mario Adinolfi’s lawyers, Pablo De Luca and Riccardo Di Lorenzo. “Moreover, the matter is crystal clear, given that this would appear to be the only fraud in history carried out with total transparency, involving traceable and verifiable bank transfers to the alleged fraudster’s bank account, from which he subsequently repaid the vast majority of the alleged victims. Mario Adinolfi’s innocence is so glaringly obvious that the public prosecutors themselves have moved to have the cases against two complainants in two different public prosecutor’s offices dismissed. However, when Adinolfi exceeded 5 per cent in the by-election for the Chamber of Deputies on 23 March, and when he chose to stand up to the violent attacks he suffered at the hands of highly influential interests in this country – whilst also exposing dealings that certain key figures had skilfully kept secret for decades – a judicial persecution was unleashed against him, which made use of the media with a worrying lack of critical judgement”, the lawyers’ statement continues. “Documents subject to confidentiality immediately disclosed to the press and not even filed with us, the defence team; lists of luxury goods which everyone knows Adinolfi has never owned or possessed; and even a cynical insistence on a surreal role played by his 80-year-old mother, who suffers from heart disease – these are just some of the ways in which the persecution has taken shape. Some intellectually honest observers are beginning to wonder why the Freemason Lavitola – who is under investigation by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office itself as the instigator of a massacre – is free to socialise with journalists, treating them to spaghetti with clams at his restaurant, whilst Adinolfi has had everything taken away from him: not only his physical freedom and freedom of speech, but even the simple use of email. The newspaper acting as a mouthpiece for those leaking the investigation files runs the headline, without batting an eyelid: ‘He is still dangerous’. In reality, Adinolfi has never been dangerous, except to the interests that wish to silence him forever,” the lawyers conclude.
Adinolfi’s lawyers: “Application submitted to the Review Court”
Milan, 18 July (LaPresse) – “Yesterday we lodged an application with the Review Court, having noted that Mario Adinolfi’s cooperative attitude was to no avail; during the preliminary hearing, he answered all the questions put to him by the investigating judge and the public prosecutor, without invoking his right to remain silent, as is often the practice.” This was stated in a note by Mario Adinolfi’s lawyers, Pablo De Luca and Riccardo Di Lorenzo. “Moreover, the matter is crystal clear, given that this would appear to be the only fraud in history carried out with total transparency, involving traceable and verifiable bank transfers to the alleged fraudster’s bank account, from which he subsequently repaid the vast majority of the alleged victims. Mario Adinolfi’s innocence is so glaringly obvious that the public prosecutors themselves have moved to have the cases against two complainants in two different public prosecutor’s offices dismissed. However, when Adinolfi exceeded 5 per cent in the by-election for the Chamber of Deputies on 23 March, and when he chose to stand up to the violent attacks he suffered at the hands of highly influential interests in this country – whilst also exposing dealings that certain key figures had skilfully kept secret for decades – a judicial persecution was unleashed against him, which made use of the media with a worrying lack of critical judgement”, the lawyers’ statement continues. “Documents subject to confidentiality immediately disclosed to the press and not even filed with us, the defence team; lists of luxury goods which everyone knows Adinolfi has never owned or possessed; and even a cynical insistence on a surreal role played by his 80-year-old mother, who suffers from heart disease – these are just some of the ways in which the persecution has taken shape. Some intellectually honest observers are beginning to wonder why the Freemason Lavitola – who is under investigation by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office itself as the instigator of a massacre – is free to socialise with journalists, treating them to spaghetti with clams at his restaurant, whilst Adinolfi has had everything taken away from him: not only his physical freedom and freedom of speech, but even the simple use of email. The newspaper acting as a mouthpiece for those leaking the investigation files runs the headline, without batting an eyelid: ‘He is still dangerous’. In reality, Adinolfi has never been dangerous, except to the interests that wish to silence him forever,” the lawyers conclude.
