Tax evasion, money laundering and corruption. These are the accusations leveled by the Florence prosecutor's office against the top management of the pharmaceutical company which is asking for sentences of up to nine and a half years in prison.
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he highest penalties requested by prosecutors Luca Turco and Ettore Squillace Greco are for the children of the owner of Menarini, Alberto Aleotti, who died in 2014: nine and a half years for Lucia Aleotti and eight years for Giovanni Aleotti. Six years and eight months' imprisonment was requested for their collaborators, Giovanni Cresci and Lucia Proietti. A year was asked for the other collaborator, Sandro Casini. For Alberto Aleotti's wife, Massimiliana Landini, the request is two years' imprisonment.
Last October the documents relating to the account of 476 million euros which in 2008 were held at the Banca Lgt of the Principality of Liechtenstein were held by the patriarch Albert, his wife and children Lucia. An account that came to light when a former LGT official, Heinrich Kieber, had sold the list of 3,929 confidential accounts of foundations and 5,828 natural persons to the German secret services for 5 million euros. The secret account in Liechtenstein is at the origin of the investigation into the laundering of alleged Menarini slush funds. Initially at the trial the documentation had been excluded by the court. The prosecutors then asked for the letter rogatory and the Ministry proceeded to make them usable.
