Giorgio baita mantovani biography

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Venice's mayor since 2010, Giorgio Orsoni has been charged with embezzlement, money laundering, and contract rigging related to a massive.
According to the Local, among the first to be arrested last summer were Piergiorgio Baita, former CEO of the construction group Mantovani, and Giovanni.

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In November 1966 Venice was nearly destroyed by the largest flood in its history. After the flood subsided it was clear to all Venetians that something had to be done to prevent it happening again. It was a question of life or death for La Serenissima.

Yet it took another 20 years for a solution to be found. Or so everyone thought.

In the early 1980s, a consortium of Italy's most powerful construction companies, Consorzio Venezia Nuova (CVN), meaning "New Venice," came up with a grand plan. Known as Mose (Experimental Electromechanical Module) and funded by the Italian government in Rome, it would be the first system of submergible floodgates in the world.

Over the years, Mose continued to forge ahead with its $7.6 billion project. With shareholders such as the Impregilo corporation, a member of the once almighty Fiat group, it seemed sure to succeed. However, everything changed last month when the mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, was arrested. His alleged crime was to have accepted money for his political campaign from CVN. On the same day, the Italian police arrested 35 other

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In November 1966, when I was six months old, Venice was nearly destroyed by the largest flood in its history. My parents weren't home. I have been told that my Dutch babysitter would put on her swimsuit to go downstairs to our flooded kitchen to warm up some milk for me.

After the flood subsided it was clear to all Venetians that something had to be done. It was a question of life or death for La Serenissima. Yet it took another 20 years for a solution to be found. Or so everyone thought. In the early 1980s, a consortium of Italy's most powerful construction companies, Consorzio Venezia Nuova (CVN), meaning "New Venice", came up with a grand plan. Known as Mose (Experimental Electromechanical Module) and funded by the Italian state, it would be the first system of submergible floodgates in the world.

It helped that this wonderful piece of engineering, which would lead Venetians out of danger, wa

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The accusations are corruption, extortion and money laundering - The Venice prosecutor's office has also requested the arrest of Giancarlo Galan, current senator of Forza Italia, former minister and former president of the Veneto Region - In the sights of Finance, millions of euros diverted from funds for Moses and taken abroad.

Entrepreneurs, politicians, even Mayor Giorgio Orsoni, accused of bribery, bribery and money laundering. It's a cyclone of arrests that has hit in the last few hours Venice, where the Guardia di Finanza executed 35 pre-trial detention measures in the context of an investigation into the former CEO of Mantovani, Giorgio Baita, e contracts for Mose (Electromechanical experimental module), or the system of mobile gates designed to defend the Venetian capital from high water, temporarily separating the lagoon from the sea. In all, there are a hundred suspects.

In addition to Orsoni, the regional councilor for infrastructures also ended up in handcuffs Renato Chisso (Forza Italia), the regional councilor of the Pd Giampiero Marchese