Whose signatures are on the documents? According to our findings, the Turin public prosecutor's office would be willing to obtain a new report on Marella Caracciolo's signatures
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Whose signatures are on the documents? According to our findings, the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office intends to obtain a new expert opinion on the signatures attributable to Marella Caracciolo on some documents seized, together with equipment and computers, during the search as part of the investigation into an alleged tax fraud related to the woman's inheritance , wife of the lawyer and mother of Margherita Agnelli
The suspicion of the prosecutors
During the searches, the judges obtained the originals of these documents and therefore now intend to repeat the checks on the copies that have already been carried out. According to the judges, the analyzes already carried out, as we have learned in recent days, have shown that the signatures in question are “somewhat apocryphal in nature” on “some important documents”, such as “the supplements to the will” etc. “Lease agreements for Italian real estate”.
The investigation
All this is part of the aftermath of the complicated dispute over the inheritance of the lawyer Gianni Agnelli, which Margherita Agnelli waged against her children John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann.
A focus on the trusts of the group controlled by the Agnelli family was activated by the Turin public prosecutor's office, with the Guardia di Finanza obtaining documents in a notary's office. According to the findings, the file was opened following a complaint from Margherita Agnelli, Gianni Agnelli's daughter. Three people are listed in the suspect register. According to information provided by Ansa from informed sources, they are Gianluca Ferrero, accountant from Turin, Robert Von Groueningen, administrator of the estate of Marella Agnelli on behalf of the Swiss judicial authority, and John Elkann, son of Margherita Agnelli, presenter of the program “Revealed, the triggered”. the investigations of the subalpine magistrates.
The companies in the group
However, the group's companies controlled by the Turin dynasty would not be involved. The aim of the investigations is to test the hypotheses about tax irregularities, in particular regarding the tax residence of Margherita's mother, Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. The proceedings initiated by the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office against the trusts of the group controlled by the Agnelli family would not fall under the responsibility of unknown persons. The judges made entries in the suspect register.
This is a new trend in the legal battle started years ago by Margherita Agnelli. Just a month ago, the criminal case against the children was returned to the Turin court over a matter indirectly related to the inheritance of their father Gianni Agnelli. In fact, the Court of Cassation has partially annulled the decision with which the judges of the Piedmontese capital ordered last June to suspend the proceedings pending the resolution of three legal cases ongoing in Switzerland. At the same time, the Milan prosecutor's investigation continues, focusing on the thirteen works of art that decorated Villa Frescot and Villar Perosa in Turin, as well as a family residence in Rome, which disappeared years ago and are now claimed by his daughter Margherita. Sole heir after her death. his mother Marella Caracciolo from Castagneto.
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