San Marino. Black King ruling, inevitable political fallout
Black King ruling, inevitable political fallout
ANTONIO FABBRI – The affair of the confirmation of the sentence against the former president of Asset Stefano Ercolani in the “Black King” case, which saw the Court of Cassation in fact endorse the accusatory system of the previous two levels of judgment including the aggravating circumstance of the transnational nature of money laundering, it inevitably has political risks in San Marino. Just as he had them far away in the genesis of the investigations in 2008, he cannot fail to have them today.
At the time, the affair occurred at the resignation of the first president of Central Bank, Antonio Valentini (a circumstance also reported in the report of the recent commission of investigation, page 24) and a whole series of judicial vicissitudes that raised the attention and tension on the part of the prosecutor of Forlì and the Bank of Italy on the San Marino system. Then as today, the political implications are evident and inevitable.
It is a fact that the affair Resource is one of the pillars at the basis of the birth and action of the current government and the current majority. In addition to the agreement on justice, for what has been defined as a purge action by the court, it is undeniable that the government and the majority also rely on their action on Asset Bank, which supported the same government structure when it was in opposition and continued to do so to bring the current government structure to the head of the country. The Councilor’s sentence remained in the minutes of the Board Alessandro Cardelli who stated in May 2017: “Asset Banca owns a newspaper which during the election campaign obviously financed a political part that is not sympathetic to this electoral magazine“.
Even since then when the affinity of the current government structure with Resource was therefore strong and was subsequently consolidated by seeing many defense lawyers, politicians and even properly so called, joining the Council to plead the cause of Resource, which did not diminish with the liquidation of the bank. from the A.D a net, from NPR a Motus, the case”Black King“Had been almost set aside, kept in a corner and hidden by the instances for the absolute demonization of the commissioner and forced liquidation of that bank, often defined as” healthy “, with a political and propaganda action that seemed to neglect the critical elements present and those of transnationality of distortions, which re-emerged forcefully last Friday with the sentence of the Supreme Court.
Now, both the questions concerning the personal criminal responsibility and the sentencing to imprisonment of a San Marino citizen, and those relating to the responsibility of legal persons, fall heavily on the line that the State of San Marino and its current government have held and will keep, also considering that in that process, it is not a secondary fact, there are Italian institutional parties as civil parties that are not to be neglected in the relations between the two states, such as the Bank of Italy and the Revenue Agency.
Article taken from The information of San Marino, published in full after 6 pm