Sangiuliano, everything that doesn’t add up in his version of the Boccia case

We now know his version of the facts: between his statements to the newspapers, the meeting with Giorgia Meloni and the exclusive interview with Tg1, Gennaro Sangiuliano has reconstructed in great detail the Maria Rosaria Boccia affair, the political scandal of the summer, which revolves around a phantom appointment of the forty-one-year-old as Advisor to the Minister for Major Events. Yet many aspects of the story remain unclear, and many questions unanswered. Let’s see which ones.

Who paid for the trips?

“I categorically reaffirm that never a single euro from the ministry was spent on Dr. Boccia. I paid,” Sangiuliano reiterated to Gian Marco Chiocci, underlining that “before the start of the broadcast, I made her access my cell phone device with my bank and she was able to see with her own eyes the ticket for a train to Milan, the planes to Taormina paid by me, with my credit card“. But the minister also said that, on one occasion, it was Boccia herself who paid. Which one? Furthermore, he admitted that on two or three occasions the trips were “paid by the event organizers”: are these organizers municipalities or associations that draw on public funds? «He says that he made the reservations but Boccia published the email of the minister’s secretary chief with the flight boarding passes made by the ministry’s secretary», says co-spokesperson for Avs Angelo Bonelli. «They were guests of local administrations and organizations that receive public money: In what capacity did they invite Boccia? For the relationship with the minister? I doubt it. Or did they think it was a member of the ministry staff? The minister did not respond and the fragility of his reconstruction is evident».

And the ministry car?

According to some witnesses, Sangiuliano went to the Polignano trip by plane and Boccia with the car made available by the ministry. How can this use of the company car be justified? The deputy Angelo Bonelli is filing a complaint with the Rome prosecutor’s office: according to him there is reason to identify the crime of embezzlement.

The contract

Let’s go back to the appointment as Advisor for Major Events. Sangiuliano admitted that there was a contract for consultancy«but if it is produced it will be demonstrated that it was not countersigned». Why, before the interview on Tg1, instead, had the ministry denied, even officially, its existence?

The timing of the relationship

Sangiuliano says he met Boccia during the European election campaign, during «an FdI initiative in Naples. Our relationship began some time after we met. We met in the first ten days of May and at the end of July, beginning of August the relationship ended». The minister reportedly found «organizational skills and I thought of appointing her as advisor for the organization of major events. I brought forward the idea of ​​the appointment, but some legal friends and the chief of staff pointed out to me that it could constitute a potential conflict of interest. I invited them to interrupt the appointment process». August 26 is the day the scandal broke out. But why? Twenty days passed between the end of the report and the halt of the nomination process?

Confidential information

Sangiuliano explains that Bocia did not have access to confidential documents. Yet the woman participated in several site inspectionsas demonstrated by the July 4 email sent by secretary Frisoni to Boccia with the timing for a ceremony in Pompeii on July 23, and his name is in the Police Headquarters reports.

Glasses with camera

Regarding the filming of the interiors of Montecitorio that Maria Rosaria Boccia allegedly took with glasses with a small built-in camera, Sangiuliano downplays: «She may have come here to the ministry four or five times. She began to talk to people in the ministry about absolutely marginal aspects of the G7 such as the dinner menu, gadgets for the guests”. But the “four or five times” she was at the ministry, did Boccia record and film the conversations she attended? The House Security Committee has started proceedings: the Montecitorio regulations prohibit all unauthorized filming.