Milan, 27 April. (LaPresse) – The Milan magistrate, Giulia Marozzi, has indicted Marcello Dell'Utri and his wife, Miranda Ratti, in the matter of the donations of over 42 million euros in bank transfers received from Silvio Berlusconi after the conviction of the Cavaliere's former right-hand man and founder of Forza Italia for external complicity in a mafia-type association on 9 May 2014. The trial will begin on 9 July in front of the second criminal section of the Court of Milan. The file was inherited by the Milanese public prosecutor, Pasquale Addesso, from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Florence which had begun investigating the money as part of the investigation into the external instigators of the '93-'94 massacres. In February 2025, the Florence preliminary hearing judge, Anna Liguori, instead accepted the jurisdictional objection raised by Dell'Utri's defenders, the lawyers Filippo Dinacci and Francesco Centonze, according to whom the money received by the former Prime Minister had no connection with the massacre investigation and ordered the transfer to Milan. The former senator and his wife are in fact responsible for violating the Rognoni-La Torre anti-mafia legislation, which requires those definitively convicted of mafia crimes to declare any increase or decrease in personal assets (only Dell'Utri), and for tax crimes linked to the transfer of the 42,679,200 euros.
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