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13 Apr, 2008

Dopo il mio post di ieri riguardante lo scandalo dell'Utri censurato dalle tv e, in parte, anche dai siti internet dei grandi giornali italiani che non riportano più la notizia in homepage, sono confortato dal fatto che, almeno all'estero, se ne stia parlando.

Il sito del guardian riporta infatti la faccenda. Probabilmente non vuole garantire un voto sereno agli ita(g)liani.

Berlusconi ally denies Mafia-run ballot plot

Fraud allegations against top aide rock election frontrunner as Italians flock to the polls today

An Italian senator and top aide to Silvio Berlusconi has been forced to deny reports linking him to an alleged Mafia-run plan to hand Berlusconi 50,000 fraudulent votes, as voting gets under way today in the Italian elections.

Marcello Dell'Utri, who is appealing against a sentence for consorting with Mafia clans, has admitted helping to enrol on Berlusconi's election campaign a man whom prosecutors suspect teamed up with the Calabrian Mafia to fix votes. But the Sicilian senator, who helped to launch Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1994, described reports of his possible links to the alleged vote fraud as 'lies and garbage', adding that he had not been told he was under investigation. With a tight race in the senate expected as voters head to the polls today and tomorrow, the overseas vote could prove to be decisive in the battle between Berlusconi and centre-left leader Walter Veltroni to take over from Romano Prodi, whose government collapsed in January. Just over 1.2 million votes have been cast overseas.[...]

Anche il sito del Telegraph ne parla

[...]However, public prosecutors said that one of his innermost circle, Marcello Dell'Utri, had been overheard discussing the election with a bankrupt businessman, with alleged ties to Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia, said to have been behind the attempt to rig the vote. The votes involved were intercepted and will not be counted.

Mr Dell'Utri denied the allegation that he had any involvement in wrong-doing of any kind, and said he was not under formal investigation. "This is a vulgar insinuation, and an evident electoral ploy against me," he said yesterday. He did not dispute that he had been overheard on a wire-tapped telephone in talks with the man at the centre of the investigation, but denied it was other than an innocent conversation.[...]

 L'unico modo per sapere queste cose è usare google oppure capitare per caso qui o qui.