Ex-FI politician faces judicial disaster - Giampiero Pittelli's house arrest.

New legal problems have arisen for renowned lawyer and former Forza Italia MP Giancarlo Pittelli. After being sentenced in the first degree to 11 years in prison for aiding a Mafia association in the "Rinacita Scott" trial, today he was placed under house arrest by financiers from the Provincial Command of Catanzaro. The prosecutor's office called him in for questioning after the failure of a company where he was potentially the de facto administrator. He faces charges of fraud, unlawful access to a computer system and unlawful restitution. The charges also involve seven other suspects.

The judge also formalized two arrests against At''Alberghiera

Relating to two different cases of fraud: 650,000 and 824,000 euros, totaling 1,474,404.54 euros, as well as land in Staletti. The case concerns a plot of land in the commune of Staletti, on which a tourist structure was to be established.

The company At Alberghiera was liquidated in 2018, and despite owing €1,043,852.97 to the Calabrian region (arising from the advance of state aid received in 2005 for the construction''hotel), the land was transferred to the company Sarusi srl, which was then managed by an employee/secretary of Pittelli's law firm, Rita Tirinato - also a suspect. According to the investigation, this company was created and owned by the same former MP.

In addition, At did not demand the repayment of a debt of more than 800,000 euros that had been paid to another company, Cromar Immobiliare, also bankrupt, despite owing the region. Regarding this debt, the investigation file includes an intercepted conversation between the accountant Francesco Saverio Nitti - also a suspect - and Pittelli, during which the former says: "It doesn't matter that they are coming after you now, because even if the company is closed, it will still succumb to attack. Yes and these 800,000 euros, we don't know what''The Calabrian region will do something to them." "Maybe after 7-10 years they will wake up again?" replies Pittelli.

This conversation, according to the prosecutors, made it possible to clarify an important fact: "The need to sell the land to the newly created company (Sarusi srl) and the subsequent liquidation of At Alberghiera was conditioned by the existence of a debt owed by the company to the region as a result of financing received, but not repaid.

The investigation also accuses Antonio Marchio (34), the liquidator of At, and the notary Sebastiano Panzarella, who drew up the deed of sale of a plot of land between At and Sarusi srl "with the knowledge of the existence of a debt owed to the region".

The decision on the provisional preventive measure against Pittelli has been signed''prosecutors Irene Crea, Annamaria Frustaci, Antonio De Bernardo and Andrea Buzzelli of the DDA and then prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, the current chief prosecutor of Naples. The bankruptcy episode came to light as part of a massive investigation into Rinacita Scott.