Milan, 16 September. (LaPresse) – Daniela Santanchè's chats excluded from trials. The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has “excluded” and “removed” all “email and WhatsApp conversations” involving the Minister of Tourism from the trial for false accounting against the Fratelli d'Italia senator and 15 other managers of the Visibilia Group. This was announced this morning in court by prosecutors Luigi Luzi and Maria Gravina in compliance with the “Open-Renzi” ruling of the Constitutional Court, which, in 2023, affirmed the need for the acquisition of conversations involving parliamentarians, even with third parties, to be authorised by the chamber to which they belong. A few minutes ago, the Court of Milan rejected the request by some of the defence lawyers to exclude the former minority shareholders of Visibilia Editore, led by Torre del Greco financier Giuseppe Zeno with lawyers Nicla Castelluccio and Antonio Piantadosi, as civil parties from the trial and declared the trial “open”. At the opening, the Public Prosecutor's Office formulated its requests for evidence: the prosecutors asked for the examination of all the defendants, including Santanchè and her partner Dimitri Kunz, the technical consultants for the prosecution, officials seconded from the Bank of Italy and Consob, agents of the financial police, employees and former employees of Visibilia, including former manager Federico Celoria, who pleaded guilty in the preliminary hearing. The court, which will today make public the trial schedule, has announced that in the coming weeks two of the three judges on the panel will change after being assigned to other duties. The president of the second criminal section, Giuseppe Cernuto, will remain.
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