WIND, investigate Sawiris and Enel ROMA
Naiguib Sawirs, the Egyptian owner of the company Orascom who bought in recent years by the telephone company Enel Wind, is being investigated for the possibility of bribery by Rome prosecutors. In this investigation are being investigated, it turns out, even Fulvio Conti, CEO and general manager of Enel and Alessandro Benedetti, who mediated the deal received a compensation of 97 million €. The core currency of the financial police in Rome are performing searches at this time in Rome, Milan and London, relating to the investigation. I am of the Rome prosecutors Giuseppe Cascini and Rodolfo Sabelli last October had opened an investigation into the sale, in 2005, the phone company Wind by Enel to the company of Orascom's Sawiris. In addition the latter, the CEO of Enel's Conti, at the time chief financial officer of the company, and Benedetti, Luigi Gubitosi is also investigated, with Wind and chief financial officer of the telephone company. In total, the suspects are 11 and must meet all of corruption in the competition. The searches were made by the military of the core currency of the financial police at the site of Enel in Rome and in the offices of Auditors and in London in a house of Alessandro Benedetti and other places. In the British capital the financial police was assisted by agents of the 'Serious Fraud Office', the core of English repression fraud. According to the findings by investigators are investigating movements of 90 million €. The hypothesis is that the power of attorney to acquire Wind from Enel, the company that is owned by Sawirs would have paid bribes of which would end in the availability of Auditors and other persons. According to the findings, the transaction costs for the operation were 414 million € of which 317 banks that supported the operation and Sawiris approximately EUR 97 million in costs and expertise. Part of this funding ended with Alessandro Benedetti, Sawiris mediator on behalf of. Benedict himself in an interview with a newspaper confirmed the economic circumstances and the allocation by banks and brokerage charges. Orascom was in the race to acquire Wind, sold for € 12 billion after an investment of 17 billion di euro,con l'americana 'Blackstone'. Quest'ultima, secondo il settimanale di Raitre di Milena Gabanelli che per Report intervistò la fonte anonima, aveva offerto 12,80 miliardi di euro contro gli 11,7 di Sawiris. Secondo le indagini fonte Orascom venne avvertita da Enel dell'offerta della concorrenza e portò la sua offerta a 12,132 miliardi. L'indagine nacque proprio da una puntata di Report intitolata "Il mistero del Faraone". La stessa Milena Gabanelli e l'autore del servizio Paolo Mondani sarebbero stati sentiti, dai pm Cascini e Sabelli.
(fonte Ansa - 28 febbraio 2008, ore 17:30)
