By Craxi to Apple, the Greek prosecutor of major processes – The Republic

The prosecutor in Milan has never wanted a foreign “papa”. And once again it prevailed respect for tradition: it is an “internal” to be promoted to the leadership of the prosecution probably most important of Italy, certainly the highest number of pm and added. Francis Greek, appointed by the plenum of the CSM , as a deputy prosecutor in charge of the Department finzanziari crimes, was in fact the protagonist of the most important investigations in the financial sector: the case of maxi-Apple tax evasion and Google, the banking scandal that has engulfed the former leaders of Mps, until the matter of the alleged insider trading public tender offer launched by Japan’s Hitachi on Ansaldo sTS, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, and active in the field of railway signaling systems. He was born in Naples, son an admiral from whom he inherited his passion for the sea and sailing, Francesco Greek became ‘Milan’ on the field. Of his 64 years, 37 were spent in the most strategic Prosecutor of Italy tower through a protagonist every storm, to ‘Clean Hands’ the fierce battle that has pitted his predecessor Edmondo Bruti Liberati and Alfredo Robledo. Is presented as a man of continuity because in the bloody fighting claimed Brutes, also testifying in his favor before the CSM.

After studying in Rome and a youth from a sympathizer of the extra-parliamentary left (of which it traces a portrait hanging in his office, parkas and thick beard), came into Greek judiciary in 1977. its name begins to acquire a certain notoriety in the mid-eighties, when conducting an investigation into the corruption of big Icomec that will lead, in 1992, the arrest former Social Democratic Secretary Peter Longo. But 1992 is also the year of Clean Hands, the scandal that overwhelm with blows of notices and gusts of arrests of the First Republic politicians.

When the then chief prosecutor of Milan, Francesco Saverio Borrelli, needs a magistrate specializing in the field of economic and financial crimes, bets on him: so Greek enters the famous “pool” together with Antonio Di Pietro, Gherardo Colombo and Piercamillo Davigo and younger Paolo Ielo and Elio Ramondini . In the years of Tangentopoli, crucial for the judicial history, Greek ‘signature’ of the investigation Enimont replacing Di Pietro after the abandonment of the toga. In October 1995, in the classroom when they are sentenced in the first few politicians able symbol of the ‘First Republic’: Bettino Craxi, Arnaldo Forlani, Paolo Cirino Pomicino. Two years earlier, July 23, 1993, the entrepreneur Raul Gardini, involved in the survey, had taken his own life with a pistol shot. Greek then confided to have cried that day.

In the second half of the nineties, the destinies of the magistrate intersect with those of Silvio Berlusconi in troubled inquiries All Iberian and consolidated Fininvest. Both, in the prosecution’s perspective, a bad ending. In September 2005, the former premier is acquitted of giving black 23 billion lire to Craxi with the formula ‘the fact is not’ longer required by law as a crime by the new legislation passed by the former prime minister.

the two thousand years they see Greek on the front row in financial investigations: in December 2003, deals with the Parmalat crash, the scandal of junk bonds and a hole 14 billion into the coffers of the Collecchio group: within a few days, the patron calisto tanzi ends in san vittore: will be sentenced to 10 years. In 2005 the owner of investigations of the season and bank takeover to antonveneta bnl and so-called “smart guys in the neighborhood” who wanted to get their hands on RCS. Another storm that overwhelms judicial directly the powerful Bank of Italy governor, Antonio Fazio: publication of interception with the banker Gianpiero Fiorani, “I’d give you a kiss on the forehead”, forces him to resign. Forcing politicians to review the Governance of the central bank imposing for the office of governor, until that moment in life, a term limit of six years non renewable.

Greek does not only boasts a magistrate merits in recent years, his name circulates regularly on the occasion of the appointment of the most prestigious institutional positions in the economic and financial field. At the end of 2005 speaks of him as a possible successor to Fazio chair higher Palazzo Koch, in 2010 among the eligible candidates for the presidency of the Consob (office then assigned to Giuseppe Vegas), in 2014 it appears in pole position for the succession to Attilio Befera to the direction of the revenue. Instead, it

always remained on surveys and files.

Greek exponent of Area, the group that represents the left currents of the judiciary. However, it looks like both right to left. The former Minister Giulio Tremonti wanted him at the Aspen Institute, the current Prime Minister Matteo Renzi chose him as a tax consultant of his government. And today has managed to attract upon himself the majority of votes of the Plenum of the Palace of the Marshals.