Open, here are the forty companies targeted by the prosecutors

It is hunting for the "Bianchi scheme". Repubblica is able to reveal the complete list of Italian and foreign companies subjected to the scrutiny of the Florentine prosecutors, who at this time are trying to untangle "the intertwining of professional services rendered by Alberto Bianchi and funding to the Open Foundation", as they write in the Bianchi lawyer search decree.

A first list is made up of about twenty subjects between companies and entrepreneurs, identified last October by the investigators of the economic-financial police unit of Florence: British American Tobacco, Fingen spa, Chiantishire Agricultural Company, Sanavir srl, Chiti Alessandro, Rtv38, Menarini Group, Garofalo Group, Maestrelli Pida Group, Telecomunicazioni Italia srl, Golden Production Group, Vittorio Farina's NH Group, Vincenzo Onorato's Moby Group, Davide Serra's Algebris Investment, Alfredo Romeo's corporate galaxy, and Vito Pertosa.

Then there is a second list of natural persons or legal persons "connected to the aforementioned subjects": Airlines Handling Agents spa, Corporation America Italy, Alicross, Lagfin, Aurelia srl, Big Space, Begin, G.F. Uno, Getra Power, Mossi and Ghisolfi spa, Golden Production, Azimut Association, Reale Communications Association, Il Mercante dei Sogni, Intek Group, Promidis, Irbm spa, Karat srl, Impresa Armasina Scarl. The last to be identified by the financiers, in November, were Kairos Investment Management spa and Kairos Partners Sgr.

What are the investigators looking for? Traces of what is increasingly emerging as the "Bianchi scheme", and that the prosecutors believe they have photographed in theaffair Toto. In summary: the lawyer Bianchi, already legal representative of the Open Foundation ("safe" that financed the political rise of Matteo Renzi) gets from the Toto Group an assignment to resolve a dispute with Autostrade per l'Italia and for which he is paid 2 million and 250 thousand euros; part of that money, 750 thousand, if he has it credited to his personal account; then reclamation at Open 200 thousand euros, and another 200 thousand turns them over to the Committee for the Yes to the 2016 referendum. Not insignificant, for the purpose of demonstrating the scheme, the note dated 12/9/2016, in which Bianchi refers to the then undersecretary Luca Lotti "to have received 750 k on the basis of the agreement with Toto" and informed him that he had made the transfer to Open.

An approach completely rejected by Bianchi's lawyer, Nino D'Avirro, who claims that his client did not have consultations with almost none of the companies indicated by the investigators. And that even in the case of Toto it was a regular fee.

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