The Substitute of the Secretariat of State gives testimony at the British High Court in London in the civil case brought by financier Raffaele Mincione. He answers questions from Mincione's lawyer regarding financial relations with broker Gianluigi Torzi and efforts to force him to relinquish control of the Sloane Avenue property.By Salvatore Cernuzio, London
The current trial began on 24 June following a civil suit filed four years ago by financier Raffaele Mincione. No reference, however, was made by his lawyer Charles Samek during his numerous questions to the Substitute regarding the transactions between Mincione and the Secretariat of State, the subject of the trial in London.
They are"false" invoices, said lawyer Charles Samek, who had copies of letters sent to Credit Suisse indicating different motives from the real ones that were opened on the various computers in the courtroom, connected simultaneously. Like the one for 5 million pounds that cited"professional activities" rendered by Torzi to the Secretariat of State for real estate in other cities.