A video shot by the carabinieri in 2008 was also sent to the capital with the documents of the investigation: the camera focuses on the iron gate of a condominium on the outskirts of Rome. You can see a gentleman in a gray suit shaking hands with another man in a sweater who has obviously just come down from home. The two chat briefly, then the first passes the folded copy of a newspaper to the other. Handshake, the gentleman in gray leaves the scene and the other, a big smile on his lips, goes down into the street, crosses it and goes away towards a garden, holding the folded newspaper tightly under his arm.
The gentleman in the gray suit was the entrepreneur Riccardo Braglia, owner of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hellsinn, the one in the sweater was Dr. Pasqualino Rossi, the Italian representative at EMEA (the European drug agency) until the scandal caused by his arrest: the industrialist had placed an envelope with the bribe in the folded newspaper; pocketed it, Rossi went to the bank to pay the money. The carabinieri filmed him up to the counter and ascertained that his account was in the red before the videoed payment.
The video represents the gem in the voluminous documentation collected by the prosecutors first in Turin and later in Rome: it is deposited in the registry with all the other documents of the investigation available to the defendants' lawyers in view of the preliminary hearing (now concluded) and the future trial.
