“I never knew anything about the bomb against Sigfrido Ranucci. I only found out the day after the explosion.” With these words, Natalia Potenza, former partner of Valter Lavitola, opened the long hearing before the anti-mafia public prosecutor of Rome Edoardo De Santis, explaining to the magistrates that she was unaware of the planning of the attack and only learned of its existence the day after the event.
The Interrogation
During the interrogation, which lasted over ten hours, investigators from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate mainly reconstructed the economic relationships between Lavitola and the other individuals involved in the investigation, as well as the founding of the “Bistrò Cefalù” restaurant in Monteverde. The commercial activity could now become the focus of the Prevention Measures Court, which, at the request of the anti-mafia prosecutors, could consider a measure aimed at confiscating the assets believed to be attributable to Valter Lavitola. Potenza was heard as a person informed of the facts within the investigation that sees Lavitola, detained in Rebibbia prison, accused of being the alleged mastermind of the attack against the Report host. The woman, assisted by her lawyer and accompanied by her sister, answered all the magistrates’ questions, providing clarifications on the management of the companies and the economic resources attributable to her former partner.
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Financial Relations
A significant part of the hearing concerned the financial relations with Clelio Tavares and the carbon credit business developed in Cameroon. The prosecutors tried to reconstruct money flows, company shares, and the origin of the resources used in the various economic initiatives, verifying the provenance of the assets and the possible existence of fictitious ownerships. Investigators were also shown accounting documents related both to “Bistrò Cefalù” and to some companies attributable to Lavitola’s entrepreneurial universe. The material will now be analyzed by the Financial Police and the Dda offices to verify the correspondence between bank transactions, properties, and investments. The investigators’ attention remains focused precisely on the restaurant opened about ten years ago in the Monteverde Vecchio district. According to the investigative hypothesis, the activity could represent one of the patrimonial assets on which to request the application of a patrimonial prevention measure, within the framework of investigations for money laundering and fictitious ownership of assets. At the end of the hearing, concluded in the evening, Natalia Potenza left Piazzale Clodio by taxi. To avoid photographers and TV crews waiting in front of the main entrance, the woman exited through a secondary gate of the Palace of Justice, without making statements to reporters. The results of the patrimonial investigations will be evaluated in the coming weeks by the Dda magistrates.
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