Gatti-Galassi trial in San Marino, the direct AIF: “” Bearer passbooks were not means of payment “
“Bearer passbooks were not means of payment”. Thus in the Gatti-Galassi trial the director of Aif, who affirmed that even at the time there was a regulation that required, for traceability, to record the change of hands of the title.
ANTONIO FABBRI – New hearing yesterday in the trial against the former secretaries of state Gabriele Gatti and Clelio Galassi. The case, as known, is that of the so-called “Office Center”, relating to the charge of money laundering linked to three contested bribes by the accusation: Tavolucci office center, in fact; granting of the EuroCommercialBank license and operation of the new Wonderfood headquarters. (…)
The director of the AIF, Nicola Muccioli, the tax attorney, Giorgia Ugolini, asked how bearer passbooks were regulated at the time and if they could be used as a means of payment. The director of the AIF, at the time of the investigations deputy director and even before at the time of the facts, clear bank branch operator, in fact disputing the statements of other witnesses, in particular entrepreneurs, who in his opinion also at the time the bearer passbook could not be considered a means of payment. “It was a title in which it could only be paid and withdrawn cash by the holder of the booklet”. Then he also explained that already at the time there was a regulation that specified the use of the passbooks to the portatone and prescribed the traceability that any transfers owed. (…)
Article taken from The Information of San Marino