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Berlusconi offers a Mafia home to quake survivors

antifa | 12.04.2009 09:22 | World

Italy's billionaire prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, on Friday offered to put up in his own homes some of the thousands of people made homeless by this week's earthquake.

"I will do what I can too, by offering some of my houses," the 72-year-old media mogul told reporters after a state funeral for the victims in the mountain city of L'Aquila.

Among the properties that the premier has made available to the earthquake of Abruzzo is the villa La Certosa. Located in Porto Rotondo and is the summer residence of the Knight. It was designed for the Mafia member Flavio Carboni.

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The businessman: This is how cavalier Berlusconi has made money


Self-made man. Oiled of the Lord. President laborer. Head of the "antifa-warriors." Are just some of Berlusconi's self-definitions of the icon, relaunched its many gazzettieri. Image midway between the best anthology film, expressed by the fourth power of the famous Orson Welles, and more of our own home. Silvio Berlusconi, after all, has always loved selfglorifications and honorific titles. Not everyone knows, for example, that the knighthood was obtained thanks to feature all'escamotage owner of his company only marginally. Also in the seventies, the house was shown a picture with parchment attesting that the title of "Count Berlusconi." To assign an elusive combination heraldry. Personal vanity, which even then showed the obsessive quest for legitimacy and acceptance by others.
Since that time, the "I have done by myself" and "ghe pensi mi" Ambrosian - greening on TV in 2001 with the famous and unfortunately ignored "pact with Italians" - were an integral part of the mythology of the Knight. It was the era when the cool Doctor of Laws was brought up in palaces Alciati (south-west of Milan), Brugherio, Segrate (Milano 2), Basiglio (Milan 3). It mattered little if, in fact - thanks to entrature with the right policies and the Dc Psi - Berlusconi was busy mainly to raise the land and then build them from real manufacturers. The important thing was that the buildings recassero the symbols of society (Edilnord, Italcantieri, Hydra, etc..) Attributable to people close to him and / or himself.
The pseudo-constructor, a competitor of Rapisarda and Ligresti, had some gear. Not limited to work in one area, although the fever of the brick in that period produced a large business. Through a dummy, in 1973 Berlusconi entered the stealth of television: Telemilano to the exclusive benefit of the inhabitants of Milan 2nd Three years later, the entrance - with a minority share initially - in the new Journal of Indro Montanelli. At the end of'79, another bang: the creation, along with Marcello Dell'Utri, Publitalia from there a short giant advertising. In short, within a few years a tremendous escalation of enterprise and a financial "unlimited".
Later, the "octopus" Berlusconi raids also work in areas such as cinema projection rooms, theaters, sports. Until domain - thanks to the decree-law ad hoc signed for him by Craxi - over the broadcaster private, with three national networks and a dozen located in each region. The multiple of student affairs of multi Salesians - certainly, not full of family - until the beginning of the nineties had aroused curiosity and envy especially in business and entrepreneurship. In many considered an adventurer Berlusconi rampant, and almost all of them think the attack after winning the majority of the Knight publishing group, the Mondadori. A story not from the center of controversy and now a process taking place in Milan.
This, in short, the business of climbing President of the Council. That is, the visible facade, often celebrated by his hagiographers. But there is a back-stage behind all this, which stimulates some question how the empire was born Berlusconi and, most importantly, "how" did this man money? The lines through which the Fininvest has been the focus of financial whirling turns are many. Just to mention, in sum, a substantial part, useful to understand how a man of small-middle-class family has been able to become the richest man in Europe and the most powerful politician in Italy.

Oh, beautiful Lugano
In mid-sixties, the first financial channel, which allows the initiation of construction activities to a new graduate Berlusconi (born 1935) is represented by two Swiss financial Lugano, hidden behind the lawyer Renzo Rezzonico. Initially, Berlusconi has for the dummy cousin Lidia Borsani, housewife. In 1976, its first successor Antonio D'Adamo (stumbled a few years ago in legal proceedings) and Umberto Previti, father of Cesare. Only then, the future premier will appear in person. I always get money from the two mysterious entities in Switzerland.

Bank Rasini
The tiny institution milanese (located in Merchants Square) in the seventies was led by Luigi Berlusconi, Silvio father. The Rasina, already in financial dealings with the Swiss, gives Berlusconi a robust exposures. Later, a huge investigation of Criminalpol, resulted in "Notte di San Valentino" (14 February 1983) in numerous arrests, will highlight the relationship with the bank malavitosi, mafiosi and unexpected move that white collar tens of billions of lire, proceeds of extortion , drug trafficking and kidnappings. The bankruptcies-mason-Mafia Michele Sindona in 1985 which indicates the Rasini >. Rasini Mario, son of the founder of the credit institution, will become a partner in Berlusconi in tv. A survey (completed in 2000), ordered by the judiciary of Palermo, will fire the past financial reports Berlusconi-Rasini. Operations have emerged that suggest money laundering of money of dubious provenance, missing documents, microfilm burnt. Holding as many as 22, due to Knight, are registered as "service hair and beauty institutes. Holding other 12 will float later.

Istifid and Parmafid
Two symbols, among others, due - through dummy - two white-collar and Giò Antonio Virgilio Monti, both involved in that "Notte di San Valentino." The two financial, according to the findings of the police calling for the proceedings against mafia Dell'Utri, were at the service of Cosa Nostra. The symbol appears in many Parmafid Holding Berlusconi, along with Efibanca and Romafides.

Paradise Land
& Tax
FININVEST the foreign sector is a long and winding Arianna wire: dozens of trustees located in Malta, Luxembourg, Netherlands Antilles, Virgin Islands, Gibraltar. Among these, the main All Iberian, Berlusconi declared that unknown to him, together with that Tarak Ben Ammar. In reality, it is the dummy Sheikh Waleed Al Arab (member of Berlusconi) and is an adviser to Mediaset. Companies located in "paradise" tax - as revealed by court documents - buying and operating funds and create blacks abroad.

The P2 Gelli
Defined "association," the President of the Republic, Sandro Pertini, the Masonic lodge with the brother piduista Berlusconi (Card 1816) since the seventies in most of its financial raids. The P2 - through some banks chaired by piduisti - fund for tens of billions Berlusconi. >, writes Tina Anselmi, president of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry >. A mountain of public money with which Berlusconi will initiate and / or consolidate its construction projects and television. Two trustees of Bnl - Saf Service and Italy - make up in June'78 to Fininvest Roma (represented by Umberto Previti) with a capital of 20 million, raised a few weeks after a 50 billion lire. The Bnl was chaired and edited by representatives "piduisti".

Mafia & Surrounding
A note of the Guardia di Finanza (30 May 1983) states: >. Drug trafficking, which mentions the name of "Knight", is also in a note without a date confiscated by the Roman magistracy in 1996 in the home of Demetrio Cogliandro, retired general SISMI. The repentant Mafia Peter Cozzolino (Camorra) has told prosecutors that he and his brother Riccardo provided to Palermo boss Stefano Bonte morphine-base. Part of the huge revenues - 70 billion in 1979 - was given to his time at Dell and Vittorio Mangano. Other pentiti Mafia argue that tens of billions of lire had been delivered by Bonta (killed in 1981) to Dell'Utri-Berlusconi to form the network television. Among the leaders of the Sicilian broadcasters, owned by Fininvest, figure Antonio Inzaranto (employee group Berlusconi), relative of the boss Tommaso Buscetta. It 'goes without saying that even in mid seventies, the pseudo stable Vittorio Mangano - in reality referent of Cosa Nostra in Sydney - has remained for nearly two years in the villa at Arcore. Mangano was in the middle of all sorts of illegal trafficking.

The story
Green Lawn
In the early Eighties, the notorious fixer Sardinian Flavio Carboni was in business relations (property, land, Olbia 2 ...) with Berlusconi, through the officer Pubblitalia Comincioli Romano, formerly of Knight sodalite through bumpy society "General Commercial". At the heart of Carboni-Comincioli-Berlusconi society Prato Verde, of which for some time the same Comincioli was sole director. Characters in it revolved collude with the bandwidth of the Magliana, whose cashier was the boss Pippo Calò Palermo. The "Prato Verde", according to the judiciary, have contributed to the despoliation of the Banco Ambrosiano, receiving credit for tens of billions of lire. Comincioli already referent of Forza Italia in Sardinia, from 2001, Member.

Illegal & legal affairs
The palatial residence of Arcore, with immense park and paintings of great value, reached thanks to Berlusconi riding of Cesare Previti. The figure, paid the then very young Annamaria Casati Stampa (returned from a family tragedy) was only 500 million paid in installments. More or less the price of a good apartment in Milan. A colossal affair of hundreds of billions of old lira was made by Berlusconi - under the protection of Bettino Craxi - with the sale of property (remained unsold for years) to welfare-state institutions and para. Also at the turn of the eighties and nineties, a story ignored by many media: the illegal funding of 450 billion lire paid dall'Isveimer, investment arm of Banco di Napoli. The illegality lies in the fact that according to statute, the Isveimer could neither should grant credit to companies that were not Southern. Judicial proceedings brought to light for 4 billion bribes paid by Fininvest. The Isveimer subsequently failed.

The final blow
In 1993, the Fininvest is red for about 5 thousand billion. Berlusconi implement a winning strategy: enter into politics and, thanks to newspapers and television stations that serve as a megaphone to his aspirations, he won the elections and became premier. Bankers to creditors (Bank of Rome, Commercial ...) proposes to convert their loans into a new shareholding company, Mediaset, in which he gives the Fininvest. Thanks to that "marriage", Mediaset continues to grind about profits, and with soap, Sarabande, and the like, acquires political consensus and votes.

by Antimafia2000

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