DAMAGE to the national health system of 860 million euros. A colossal scam which, according to the Florence prosecutor's office, would have gone on from 1984 to today and would have guaranteed an "unfair profit of no less than 575 million". At the center is the pharmaceutical giant Menarini and the Aleotti family who control it. Reading the closure of the investigations by the Florentine public prosecutors, one finds oneself faced with a sort of manual on how to create, manage and nurture a lobby in Italy. A system of power born and nurtured with the complicity of politics and to the exclusive detriment of the citizens.
THE FAMILY Aleotti, father and two sons, in fact, manages a network of politicians, directors and deputy directors of national newspapers, to be "guided" to achieve their goals. In the Roman palaces Sergio Alberto Aleotti, owner of the company, has contacts and direct relationships with the government. In particular with the Undersecretary of the Presidency, Gianni Letta. And with Claudio Scajola who, in the role of minister, actively intervenes to favor Menarini. But the acquaintances of the Aleottis are selected and of an excellent level. Like the "queen" of Roman salons, who died in October 2009, Maria Angiolillo who in her residence in Trinità dei Monti saw numerous governments blossom and fade. He talks amiably with Aleotti. "If we make it Maria, with our great Minister, life becomes different" he begins, referring to Scajola. Angiolillo understands, replies "maybe look", then becomes interested and follows the story so much so that in another conversation with Aleotti she confesses: "Every evening I pray for the patent". And it is always she who informs Alberto Aleotti that he will be contacted by Gianni Letta. Among the men in government, the family moves with ease. aele Lauro and the president of the Industry Commission Cesare Cursi. But also with Raffaele Fitto, Maurizio Sacconi and Altiero Matteoli. Until the meeting that took place on February 4, 2009 with Letta, to whom a letter addressed to Silvio Berlusconi was sent two days later. Enrico Rossi, president of the Tuscany Region elected with the Democratic Party, was also there. He sent two letters, one to Scajola and one to Letta, on behalf of Aleotti. And the prosecutors discovered that the two letters were written by Aleotti himself and then given to Rossi. The Nas reconstruct: the letters are drafted “not by him (Rossi, ed) but by the Aleottis, in whole or in part, leaving Rossi's activity as that of a simple postman”. And while the owner of Menarini moves with extreme ease in the Roman palaces, his daughter Lucia [in the picture] "take care" of relations with the press in an attempt to "tame" the news. Or rather: in order not to release those relating to investigations into the company. Thus, the investigators note, despite the Menarini scandal foreshadowing one of the largest tax evasions in Italian history, the newspapers seem to devote little space to it.
