The document confirms that the company that organized an event of the exponent dem before the European Championships ’24 received the missing part of the account from the Pescheria Foundation (controlled by the Municipality)
The accounts return. At least those revealed to the Truth by Marco Balducci, owner of the Pesaro company of Justogustly Catering. This company, on April 12, 2024, prepared the “popular dinner” offered by the then mayor of Pesaro Matteo Ricci to about 1,500 people and Balducci and the colleague who deals with the administration confirmed to investigators of the State Police and the Guardia di Finanza what had already told us. That is, the riding stables to lower the costs of the electoral event of the current dem candidate to the presidency of the Marche region. The initial estimate had been around 20,000 euros (13 euros per person), but then it had dropped to 16,000 euros, less than 11 euros each (“an offer made to enter” in the graces “of the Municipality, to make us known” admit as a judge).
The final price, however, would not have been paid entirely by the Association of Curls “A great little.” In fact, 5,000 euros, based on underground agreements, had to be welded through other catering granted by the Pescheria Cultural Foundation, 100 percent controlled by the Municipality.
As we wrote in August, on May 7, 2024 Giustogusto would have received a application for registration on the suppliers retrosalized on April 10 (two days before dinner).
Cards
Now the city councilor Giulia Marchionnielected with the civic list of the center-right “Pesaro turned”, he found the payment invoice with a contextual transfer of 26 July 2024 of 5,357 euros (exactly the missing part of the dinner account of 12 April), carried out by the fish shop for the buffet made on the occasion of the press conference at Villa Imperiale with the performer Marina Abramović. In a nutshell he found confirmation to what was reported by Balducci & c ..
On June 17, the day before the event, the general manager of the Foundation Silvano Straccini signs document number 139 which has as its object the assignment to the right “of the special buffet (…) as an event of honor of one of the actions of Pesaro 2024 (Capital of culture, editor’s note) »
The banquet was offered to present the show to the media The Life of Abramović And, read in the document, it would have been made “in the presence of 100-120 guests”.
A closed number of guests (all accredited by email) that allows us to calculate with a certain precision the cost to person of the standing buffet: about 50 euros, five times more than the April dinner in April which provided as the main courses lasagnette with sausage and veal tip in sauce with sautéed herbs.
The estimate
Initially the judgments had sent the fishmonger a quote with a gourmet offer, but then the menu had been simplified. “The quote was 55 euros per person, even if then I know that we did 50” confirms us Balducci.
To be honest, in the official estimate of the judge’s right attached to the document signed by Straccini (the one with the indication of the 100 guests), reference is made to 200 people to feed (in this case the per capita price would halve).
The proposal included a service with 3 waiters and 3 others at the buffet tables, an island dedicated to bakers and baked goods in the area, dishes and tablecloths, Passi cheese Pizza Rossini, Dolce (a fruit pastry), “delicacies of the Marche region”, wines and sparkling wines. In reality, the latter were offered by Food Brand Marche which also provided cured meats and cheeses, such as the Ciauscolo cut to the knife and the buffalo mozzarella. The Food Brand Marche is the Association of the Marche agri -food that had a 150,000 euro partnership with the Pescheria Foundation for Pesaro Italian capital of culture.
The journalists eventually were also able to taste a proposal of brands from the Marche (in particular the famous Ascoli olives), roasted turkey, octopus and potatoes, seafood salad, vegan flaotes, grilled vegetables. All the dishes that the judge’s right normally offers its customers and certainly not for 50 euros per skull, even if the passothelli would have been seasoned with “Casciotta and summer black truffle”.
New elements
Balduccias mentioned, confirmed to the investigators that this catering would have been a sort of partial payment of the dinner on April 12th. But yesterday he added that at the presentation of the account by the fish shop they would protest for the excessive cost: “Afterwards they objected on the price and I had to do a whole screen with what they had given them (through the food brand Marche, ed) and what I had put on”.
There Brandslawyer and candidate for the regional ones in the center-right list I Marche for Acquaroli, comments: «The beginning of all evils in the management of resources by the Pescheria Foundation dates back to the distant March 2021, when Curls and the councilor for beauty Daniele Wicker they decided to change the statute of the Foundation. From that moment it has become a sort of “in participant in house of culture” with a role similar to that of the Department, without, however, any control by the City Council “is the complaint. “And at the time he earned our attempt to request the appointment of two of the members of the Foundation’s board of directors by the City Council so as to guarantee transparency in resource management. Our amendment was rejected by the Cordata PD-5S-AVS with a clear and total “niet” ».
Doubts
A bolt that suspected the Brands: «What should have feared if the only goal was to do the good of the city of Pesaro in the year of the Italian capital of culture? Who would have harmed the presence of members appointed by the City Council in the Foundation’s board? ». The councilor remarks that the fish market has managed, in the year of the Italian capital of culture, over 7 million euros of revenue, between funding of public bodies, private sponsors and ticket office proceeds. «Reading the budget it is clear that the expenses were in equal amount and that 350,000 euros were used to bring to the city Marina Abramovićas many for the spectacle of Spark’s fireflies (An installation, editor’s note) at the Miralfiore Park, 40,000 euros went to the work Maestra (The non -profit association in the center of the investigation for corruption, editor’s note) » The councilor concludes his intervention with the question of the questions: «exactly what the Pescheria Foundation has to do with the electoral dinner of Matteo Ricci? »
The investigations on the dinner of April 12 and on the alleged adjustment with the catering of the fish fish they continue and soon, as far as it appears to Truthcould lead to precise disputes. It is not yet clear whether before or after the elections of the end of September in which Ricci runs to become governor of the region.
