2023-05-30 20:10:28
“When various journalists have started to hunt me for news about a sentimental story of mine from about twenty years ago, I have let my trusted lawyer, Mr. Romolo Reboa, as the only possible contact point, since I am not a character public and, even today, I don’t understand why it should be on the front pages of newspapers and on talk shows”.
This was stated by the surveyor Mr. Raffaele Matano after the appearance of his name in a series of journalistic publications on the family history of the President of the Government, Mrs. Giorgia Meloni.
“The lawyer Don Romolo Reboa has said more than once to the different journalists who have contacted him that I am not a public figure and that the European and Italian regulations on the RGPD give me the right to privacy of my life: they have understood another stuff. Therefore, I have decided to protect my name with this statement, also because fictitious and defamatory reconstructions have been made about me; then I will do it judicially”.
“For example, it has been affirmed that, in a procedural issue, I would not be innocent since it has been concluded by prescription: the journalists have violated the Constitution to defame me, which is provided for in its art. 27 the presumption of innocence until there is a final sentence.
The lawyer Reboa reminds me that this principle is identical to that of art. 48 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and art. 6 of the Bill of Human Rights, but for these journalists I would be a person who makes bankruptcies for acts in which a final sentence has never been pronounced that has found me guilty.”
“Nor does it seem right to me that Mrs. Anna Paratore is pointed out as a kind of partner in not very clear real estate initiatives, given that I had granted micro-participations in various companies as forms of incentive to a person who, At that time, she was a valid employee of my group: such participations, as in all companies, have been liquidated at the time of termination of the employment relationship”.
“Therefore, it is incorrect to affirm that I and Mrs. Anna Paratore were business partners in order to implicate this woman in facts that only refer to me.”
“To speak of trust companies as violations of the law is to say something very incorrect and means not knowing the economic world, given that they have been regularized in Italy since the law of November 23, 1939, n.1966 and the same applies to companies that operate in other States of the European Union, such as the United Kingdom until Brexit: the European Union was born to favor the mobility of capital, as has been demonstrated by the FIAT company that has been transferred in the Netherlands”.
“I have been accused in the book ”Meloni segreta“ (Secret Meloni) of having met businessmen twenty years ago who have subsequently been accused of crimes, including serious ones: I am 78 years old, I have known hundreds, perhaps thousands, of businessmen, perhaps the more expert real estate operator in the creation and organization of shopping centers and with many I have had, at times, brief company participations, as a guarantee of the payment of my professional benefits. Associating my name only with those who have had problems with the law in order to accuse the president of poor propriety is defamatory behavior against me.”
“I will never make other statements, but it will not be impossible to read my reactions, if this defamatory campaign continues: the sentences that will be pronounced will speak, since I will request the Courts to protect my rights.”
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