Overview
- Prosecutors in Milan on July 15 notified an avviso di conclusione delle indagini naming senator Daniela Santanchè, about 15 others and one company in a probe tied to the collapses of Ki Group, Ki Group Holding, Bioera and Umbria srl.
- The 23‑page filing lists charges including bankruptcy fraud, false accounting and aggravated fraud against the State and details alleged improper dividends, concealed negative equity and nearly €12 million in false capital gains.
- Investigators say the scheme also induced Invitalia to provide pandemic-era support of roughly €3.3 million through artifice and deception, which prosecutors treat as an added count of fraud against the State.
- The notice names family members and close associates, including Santanchè’s sister Fiorella Garnero, her ex‑companion Giovanni Canio Mazzaro and reports also include her son Lorenzo, framed as part of a coordinated managerial network.
- Next steps include a likely prosecutorial request for indictment and continued interaction with separate proceedings and parliamentary immunity questions that could affect timing and how the case moves to trial.