Former minister Sangiuliano denounces Maria Rosaria Boccia. The pressures, the report, the scuffle.

Former culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano goes on the counterattack after resigning in the wake of the Boccia scandal and decides to sue businesswoman Maria Rosaria Boccia for “undue pressure,” an expression to refer to the situation that the former owner of the Roman College went through during his relationship with the woman, and which will become the subject of the investigation of the Rome prosecutors, who will then have to decide whether to open a file for the crimes of attempted extortion and violation of privacy. In Sangiuliano’s complaint, submitted to the Rome prosecutor’s office, the former minister, through his lawyer Silverio Sica, gave a detailed account of his version of the affair. Thus, a new front is opening in the case, in which Sangiuliano is also being investigated: in fact, the Corte dei Conti is investigating whether the former minister’s actions resulted in any fiscal damage. Sangiuliano is also under investigation for possible disclosure and dissemination of official secrets.

“To the complaint,” said lawyer Sica, “we will also attach a series of documents that demonstrate the absolute correctness of my client’s conduct, also providing a chronological reconstruction of the facts.” Attached to the complaint were chats, the newspaper La Verità revealed , which would testify to a decidedly turbulent relationship between Sangiuliano and Boccia: even the conspicuous scratch on his forehead that the former minister suffered in late July, and which was still visible in the interview he gave to TG1 shortly before his resignation in September, was allegedly inflicted on him by the 41-year-old during an argument during an institutional trip to Liguria. The Corriere della Sera speaks today of strained relations between the two, “so much so that she,” Fulvio Fiano writes in his article, “would even take possession of his wedding ring at the height of a ’jealousy’ for which she would also want to have free access to his phone, even threatening to spy on him with a ’trojan.’ This would explain the woman’s references in recent weeks to alleged knowledge of conversations, including institutional ones, of the minister (aggravating his criminal position) and would be an indirect confirmation of access to conversations of the minister, not only private ones between them.”

Also at stake would be a confidentiality agreement that the woman allegedly asked Sangiuliano for in order not to reveal the story, and which appears to have been a cause for confrontation between the two. Now the prosecutors will have to gather Maria Rosaria Boccia’s version of events. The contours of an affair that led to the change of top management at the Ministry of Culture will thus be clarified in the courts: Sangiuliano in fact resigned following the case of the failure to appoint the woman with whom he had been having an affair and for whom a position as advisor to the minister for major events loomed. The appointment, then, was never formalized, but in the meantime the woman, for several weeks, continuously accompanied the minister on his institutional missions even though she had no assignment, and it remains to be determined whether or not she had access to confidential documents.

Former minister Sangiuliano denounces Maria Rosaria Boccia. The pressures, the report, the scuffle.

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