Milan, 12 September (LaPresse) – The bank account of MEP Ilaria Salis has been seized for non-payment of legal costs relating to the case involving two former staff members she had dismissed. This is according to *Il Giornale*, which reports a ‘third-party’ attachment of the account held by the MEP from the Green and Left Alliance. The disputed sum is said to be around 7,000 euros, according to the newspaper’s account. The attachment is said to concern the account into which the sums received by Ilaria Salis as a Member of the European Parliament are also paid. “First she sacked, without notice and without just cause, two parliamentary assistants she had hired just a year ago: and she was ordered to compensate them” with around 300,000 euros – writes Luca Fazzo in the newspaper. Now Ilaria Salis, an MEP for AVS, has done it again: she tried to avoid paying compensation to the two, lost the case, and was ordered to pay the legal costs. She hasn’t paid those either. The result: the former employees’ lawyers have triggered a ‘third-party’ attachment of Salis’s assets. This means that the bank account held in Salis’s name will be seized – that is, the account into which her MEP’s salary is also paid. Not much to speak of – around 7,000 euros. Meanwhile, the main legal proceedings – the case brought against the MEP by her former staff members Valentina Dadda and Francois Gelmetti – are continuing as planned. “At first instance, Salis suffered a heavy blow: she was ordered to pay 150,000 euros in compensation to each of the two dismissed staff members – the amount they would have received had they remained in her service, as agreed, until the end of her parliamentary term,” writes *Il Giornale*. “Salis has lodged an appeal, claiming she was never aware of the case brought against her, despite the court documents having been served at her Milan residence,” reports the newspaper. “The appeal – as stated on the newspaper’s website – is scheduled for next month. But in the meantime, Salis has not been sitting idly by: before the summer, she initiated two civil proceedings to block the enforcement of the judgement and the writs of execution through which the two former employees could have collected their payments. The hearing took place (strange but true) in August, and things did not go very well for the MEP: both requests were rejected and she was ordered to pay the legal costs.”
Milan: Ilaria Salis’s bank account seized to cover legal costs for former colleagues
Milan, 12 September (LaPresse) – The bank account of MEP Ilaria Salis has been seized for non-payment of legal costs relating to the case involving two former staff members she had dismissed. This is according to *Il Giornale*, which reports a ‘third-party’ attachment of the account held by the MEP from the Green and Left Alliance. The disputed sum is said to be around 7,000 euros, according to the newspaper’s account. The attachment is said to concern the account into which the sums received by Ilaria Salis as a Member of the European Parliament are also paid. “First she sacked, without notice and without just cause, two parliamentary assistants she had hired just a year ago: and she was ordered to compensate them” with around 300,000 euros – writes Luca Fazzo in the newspaper. Now Ilaria Salis, an MEP for AVS, has done it again: she tried to avoid paying compensation to the two, lost the case, and was ordered to pay the legal costs. She hasn’t paid those either. The result: the former employees’ lawyers have triggered a ‘third-party’ attachment of Salis’s assets. This means that the bank account held in Salis’s name will be seized – that is, the account into which her MEP’s salary is also paid. Not much to speak of – around 7,000 euros. Meanwhile, the main legal proceedings – the case brought against the MEP by her former staff members Valentina Dadda and Francois Gelmetti – are continuing as planned. “At first instance, Salis suffered a heavy blow: she was ordered to pay 150,000 euros in compensation to each of the two dismissed staff members – the amount they would have received had they remained in her service, as agreed, until the end of her parliamentary term,” writes *Il Giornale*. “Salis has lodged an appeal, claiming she was never aware of the case brought against her, despite the court documents having been served at her Milan residence,” reports the newspaper. “The appeal – as stated on the newspaper’s website – is scheduled for next month. But in the meantime, Salis has not been sitting idly by: before the summer, she initiated two civil proceedings to block the enforcement of the judgement and the writs of execution through which the two former employees could have collected their payments. The hearing took place (strange but true) in August, and things did not go very well for the MEP: both requests were rejected and she was ordered to pay the legal costs.”