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Titolo: Monetine a Prodi :leggete qui

L'autorevole giornale inglese Telegraph va giu' pesante su Prodi:un
corrotto.A quando le monetine a Prodi o sinistri?
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Avalanche of doubts leaves Prodi bruised
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
(Filed: 10/05/2003)
Ties to the KGB, payments from the Italian secret service, dirty dealings
with Milosevic, secret bank accounts in the Virgin Islands - the allegations
against the European Commission's president came down like an avalanche this
week.
"What next? Are they going to say I'm the serial killer of prostitutes in
Genoa?" asked a bemused Romano Prodi, vowing to file defamation charges.
The weirdest twist came from a parliamentary inquiry into Soviet espionage
brought to light by Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who copied vast
amounts of information on to scraps of paper before defecting to the
British.
His files revealed an astounding KGB penetration of the Italian elite,
listing 261 agents, including leading journalists and editors paid to invent
black propaganda.
Admiral Giuseppe Grignolo, the former head of Italian military intelligence,
testified this week that the Italian secret service had paid Mr Prodi's
research company, Nomisma, £1 million, but grew alarmed when it discovered
that the firm's Moscow office shared digs with the KGB.
Mr Prodi, an economics professor, has always had mysterious connections. In
1978 he came close to saving the life of Aldo Moro, the Italian prime
minister kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades as he was trying to form
a coalition government with the Communists - a move viewed as a threat by
Moscow and Washington.
Mr Prodi knew where Mr Moro was being held. He tipped off the police with
the exact address at Via Gradoli in Rome - though the rescue operation was
bungled. He later testified to a Senate inquiry that he had learned the name
from a Ouija board session, which was tantamount to pleading the 5th
Amendment.
In a separate inquiry, he was accused this week of taking bribes in a deal
involving Telekom Serbia, which cost the Italian state a fortune in losses.
A financier claimed in a deposition that he had laundered $55 million (£37
million) in illicit payments to Mr Prodi, codenamed Mortadella (sausage),
and two other political figures, transferring the money through London to
Jakarta and the Virgin Islands. The Swiss authorities arrested the financier
yesterday in Lugano, seizing his documents.
The claims, which Mr Prodi dismissed as "ridiculous" followed torrid
testimony in yet another case on Monday by his arch-rival, Silvio
Berlusconi, the prime minister, who is himself on trial for bribery. Mr
Berlusconi accused Mr Prodi of trying to privatise a pasta and food
conglomerate, the SME, for an absurdly low price in a secretive deal to a
political ally in 1985, while buyers willing to offer more were not allowed
to bid. At the time Mr Prodi was head of the Italian state-holding company
IRI, the patronage machine of Italian politics.
In 1996 a Rome magistrate tried to prosecute Mr Prodi, then prime minister,
for "conflict of interest" over his handling of the SME, which he eventually
sold off in chunks, some of it to companies that had allegedly paid him £1.4
million in undisclosed consulting fees shortly before.
The magistrate's offices were broken into and she and her mother received
death threats. In the end she was sent to Sardinia, her career in ruins.
Mr Prodi is not off the hook yet. He still faces an open criminal inquiry at
the Perugia tribunal. The SME case is dormant but not dead.
His enemies have made it very clear that they will use the justice system
against him if he tries to return as the leader of a united Left.
In Brussels, meanwhile, the courtier press corps has scarcely breathed a
word about his travails, as if it were bad manners to let outside reality
intrude on the European project. One would never know that the head of
Europe's most powerful institution was such an interesting man.
 7 May 2003: Prodi denies Berlusconi's claims
   External links
 Romano Prodi - European Commission
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Ma lo leggi quello che posti?
Per Berlusconi la giustizia non va adoperata per fini poltici ma, a quanto
dice questo quotidiano, predica bene e razzola male
Ribadisco (a parte Fransua' :-)) non e' che brillate per acume
Claudio

yesterday in Lugano, seizing his documents.
55 MILIONI di dollari? per cosa? per comprarsi uno stato intero?

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 Left.
Certo se vogliono cavare un ragno dal buco devono evitare i testimoni alla
Corticchia-Strazzeri-D'Adamo.