“I wouldn’t do it again. The main reason I bring this up is that it bothers me that I started an affair that could lead to an unfair conviction. I'm sure at first Fini didn't know that the house had been bought by his brother-in-law with money from Corallo, the slot machine entrepreneur. It was Corallo who organized the affair from Saint Lucia, where he owned two casinos, with the Tulliani and others around Fini, whose existence he only discovered later. Entrepreneur Valter Lavitola, today owner of the Cefalù restaurant in Viale dei Quattro Venti in Rome, in an interview with Repubblica in which he traces the history of the Montecarlo house. It was he, at the time director of L'Avanti!, who found in Saint Lucia the documents showing that the house bequeathed to An by Countess Colleoni had ended up in the hands of Giancarlo Tulliani, brother-in-law of the Former President of the Chamber Gianfranco Fini, at the time at odds with Silvio Berlusconi over control of the PDL. “Since I was a child, I dreamed of being a parliamentarian,” recalls Lavitola, recounting the story. For having found these documents, Lavitola assures that he obtained “nothing, proof of my power and my connections. I always hoped to be a parliamentarian.” And he admits: “They said I was a bandit. It was true.”
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