Bribes to the Miur, check the track that leads to San Marino – Il Tempo
From viale Trastevere to Rome, to Tel Aviv, to San Marino. The network of alleged corruption within the Ministry of Education crossed national borders. The “excellent” suspects of the investigation into the round of bribes to obtain contracts in the school world, the former director of the dicastery Giovanna Boda and the entrepreneur Federico Bianchi of Castelbianco, have been intercepted several times by the investigators of the public prosecutor of the capital.
The investigators of the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the prosecutor Carlo Villani, listened to conversations between the two suspects and other subjects who ended up in the closure of the investigation, while talking about the possibility of using vaccines as a “bargaining chip” to obtain favors for the Ministry. Not solo. In April 2021, colleagues from the Florence prosecutor’s office intercepted two people talking about Boda’s suicide attempt. And from that phone call released, according to the judiciary, contacts emerged between the former executive of the dicastery of Viale Trastevere and subjects of San Marino. So much so as to shake the diplomacy of the Republic of Monte Titano.
«You know the one who committed suicide … who threw herself out of the window at the Ministry here in Italy … there in the middle there is a very important member of the Diplomatic Corps from San Marino who gave him 640,000 euros, okay? … and this idiot has gone to get them and deposit them in the bank … now the whole Diplomatic Corps is skipping … ». One of the two interlocutors interlocutors is one of the board members of the Party of Socialists and Democrats of San Marino. The conversation between the two continues: “That one takes 2,500 euros a month … but how can you go and deposit 640,000 euros in one go? … if it’s not an inheritance or a win … that is really people look he doesn’t get there with his head ».
From the thousands of pages of the investigation into millionaire contracts for school projects, the intention of Boda and Bianchi di Castelbianco to have four people close to them vaccinated in Israel. It was March 2021, in full Covid-19 emergency, when the two suspects talk about the possibility of having Boda’s mother and father vaccinated in Tel Aviv and the retired MIUR general director, former head of the MIUR Education Department , “Currently coordinator of the technical-scientific committee for civic education”.
The intention, according to the prosecutor, would have been to pay him air tickets to obtain favors. The entrepreneur in the intercepted conversation said: «In this way I can get those points that allow me to do other bills, other things. Understood?”. The coordinator, under investigation, was president of the Evaluation Commissions of the projects presented by the schools for the allocation of funds within the Ministry of Education.