La Vérité attacks Maria Elena Boschi. Accusing her father Pierluigi, indicted for auction fraud, of an aggravated crime under Article 416 bis 1 of the Penal Code, because it was allegedly committed with a view to facilitating the activity of a 'Ndrangheta gang. The accusation of having rigged a race had already been contested almost fifteen years ago, but the investigations had led nowhere. While today, says Giacomo Amadori in Maurizio Belpietro's newspaper, it is the statute of limitations that has saved him. The story begins with Francesco Saporito, Boschi's partner in the purchase of the Fattoria di Dorna, a large agricultural property in the province of Arezzo, for 7.5 million euros. At the time, the father of the Italia Viva parliamentarian was president of the Cantina Valdarno Superiore. And he beat the competition by only 10,000 euros.
The dispute
Subsequently, according to the newspaper's reconstruction, Pierluigi Boschi resold a farmhouse with land for 250 thousand euros. The buyer's complaint triggered the dispute with the Treasury. “Boschi stole a lot of money from me, you know? Those 250,000 plus another 200,000 euros,” Saporito told La Verità in 2017. The money was allegedly used “so that an architect from Florence would withdraw from the negotiation for Dorna.” Saporito added: “Boschi says he gave him 200,000 euros. But for me, nothing is true, because I was then told that the University had satisfied the professional with another sale and, in my opinion, he took that money. In any case, he stole them from me.” Judicial collaborator Salvatore Muto spoke in 2019 of another estate in the province of Siena, where Boschi's partner was active.
The repentant
“Saporito had bought them partly by investing 'Ndrangheta money and partly by taking out mortgages. […] It was a few million euros, maybe three. The deal was born because there was this money from the gangs to invest,” Muto explained. The money would have ended up in a safe at Monte dei Paschi di Siena: “It seems justified that all the sums of black money used by Saporito also for the negotiation of the Dorna farm, including the sum of money delivered to Boschi and probably intended for the architect Baracchi, they passed through this safe,” noted the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate at the time. Edo Commisso, Saporito's co-investigator in a money laundering investigation, told him this.
Commisso and Boschi
For the magistrates, Commisso would be the man “in charge of the gang, responsible for monitoring its interests in Tuscany and identifying investment opportunities”. And he had been in contact with Boschi senior for years. But the end of the story leads nowhere. On August 30, 2022, investigating judge Fabio Gugliotta did not go into detail and concluded that, “even regardless of the assessment of the circumstantial elements that can be obtained from the documents in the file, the statute of limitations for the crime has expired”. And there is an archive.
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