This morning the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guard of Finanza di Genova have executed an order of application of coercive and prohibitory precautionary measures personal and real issued yesterday by the investigating judge before the Court of Genoa, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office filed on 27 December, in the Paolo Emilio Signorini, former Chairman of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea (accused of bribery in the exercise of office and for acts contrary to official duties, to which the measure of the pre-trial detention in prison), the President of the Region Liguria, Giovanni Toti (accused of corruption for the exercise of the and for acts contrary to official duties, the recipient of the precautionary measure of house arrest), by Aldo Spinelli, Entrepreneur in the logistics, port and real estate sectors (recipient of the precautionary measure of house arrest, accused of corruption against Paolo Emilio Signorini and the President of the Liguria Region), his son Roberto Spinelli, entrepreneur in the logistics and real estate sector (recipient the prohibitory measure of the temporary prohibition on the exercise of entrepreneurial and professional activity, accused of corruption against the President of the Liguria Region), Mauro Vianello, entrepreneur operating in the port of Genoa and president of Ente Bacini (recipient of the measure prohibition of the temporary prohibition of the activity accused of corruption in the Paolo Emilio Signorini), as well as Francesco Moncada, member of the Board of Directors of Esselunga, Matteo Cozzani, Head of Cabinet of the President of the Liguria Region, Arturo Angelo Testa and Italo Maurizio Testa, representatives of the Riesina community of Genoa, and Venanzio Maurici.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has announced that against Signorini, and Aldo and Roberto Spinelli, the investigating judge also ordered the preventive seizure of financial resources and assets for a total amount of over 570 thousand euros, considered to be the profit of the alleged corruption offences.

In a note, the Public Prosecutor's Office explains that "to the president of the The Liguria Region is accused of having accepted from Aldo Spinelli and Roberto Spinelli the promises of various funding and received a total of €74,100', 'to 'find a solution" for the transformation of the free beach of Punta Dell'Olmo from "free" to "private", by facilitate the tering of a building practice related to the complex real estate in Punta Dell'Olmo of interest to Aldo Spinelli and Roberto Spinelli is pending at the regional offices, speed up and approve the thirty-year renewal of the concession of the Bulk Terminal to Terminal Rinfuse Genova Srl (55% owned by Spinelli Srl) pending before the Committee management of the Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea approved on 2.12.2021, to assign to Spinelli the former Carbonile ITAR and Carbonile Levante port areas (assignment of on 7.6.22 and 19.12.22 respectively), assign Spinelli a state-owned area in use by the concessionaire Società Autostrade (ASPI), to facilitate the entrepreneur in the practice of "burial" of Calata Concenter (approved by the Management Committee on 29.7.2022)'.

The President of the Liguria Region and Matteo Cozzani disputed that he had accepted Francesco Moncada's promise, member of the board of directors of Esselunga, a loan illicit.

To Paolo Emilio Signorini, current CEO of Iren multi-utility company, is disputed to have accepted, in its capacity as Chairman of the Port System Authority of the Sea Western Liguria, utilities and other promises of usefulness by Aldo Spinelli «in the face of the commitment to accelerate the scheduling of the file in the Management Committee (by him chairman) for the renewal of the concession of the Bulk Terminal to the Terminal Rinfuse Genova Srl (55% owned by Spinelli Srl) and for having renewed the abovementioned concession for thirty years, to favour Aldo Spinelli in the concession of additional port spaces during the remaining three years of his term of office at the Port System of the Western Ligurian Sea, and in particular in the concession of the Enel areas (former Carbonile) and in the practice of "tombamento" of Calata Concenter, to allow Aldo Spinelli, an illegal occupation of the area of the former Carbonile on the East North and South in the absence of a legitimating title'. The The Public Prosecutor's Office specifies that "the benefits consisted of: delivery by Aldo Spinelli of €15,000 in cash to Paolo Emilio Signorini on 14.7.2022; in having Aldo Spinelli, in the period from 31.12.21 to 12.3.23, procured to Signorini 22 luxury stays in Monte Carlo at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, for a total of 42 nights, including games at the casino and extra services such as in-room services, massages and beauty treatments, a tent place on the beach of the structure during the summer and participation in events such as the final of the international tennis tournament "Rolex Monte Carlo Masters" or theme nights with attached musical performance, reserved for the most important customers of the Monte Carlo Casinos with a total value of more than €42,000, as well as chips to place bets on the House from Monte Carlo Game, a Chanel bag (gift intended for third parties) on 31.12.2021 a Cartier gold bracelet with a value of €7,200 (gift intended for third parties) on 30.7.2022, in the the entrepreneur offered on 28.1.2022 to Signorini an assignment with salary of €300,000 per year at the end of the mandate as Chairman of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, in having the entrepreneur offered in dated 16.12.2022 to Signorini the possibility of arranging, during a planned trip to Las Vegas, of a large amount of of money, drawing on the availability of the credit of Aldo Spinelli'.

In addition, Signorini is also accused of "having received from Mauro Vianello (owner of 54.19% of the shares of the company Santa Barbara Srl, active in the business sector transport and communications and specialising in Fire prevention, surveillance and first aid services within the port of Genoa), in the face of a measure that provided for an increase in the hourly rate for the services of the supplementary service of the company Santa Barbara Srl, the availability of a car owned by Vianello to reach and return from Montecarlo on the dates of 15 and 18 April 2022 respectively, the payment of the invoice dated 27/06/2022 for the amount of € 6,600.00 issued to in favour of Paolo Emilio Signorini by the company in charge the organization of the wedding banquet of Signorini's daughter, an Apple watch worth €439 (gift intended for third parties persons - purchase made on or before 1.8.2022), - a stay in the apartment owned by Vianello from 3.8.2022 to 10.8.2022, made available by the entrepreneur to the wife and daughter of Paolo Emilio Signorini'.