Luigi de Magistris has had to leave the magistracy for the investigations that he was carrying out on the intrigues between organised crime and politics. He was elected in Europe with the highest number of preference votes from those who, thanks to the Internet, are aware of his history. Now he is Chair of the European Union Budgetary Control Committee. This is a very important position and in this position he can put an end to the waste of European investments in Italy. Perhaps, for the System, for the Anti-State, it would have been better to leave him to get on with his investigations. Those who follow the blog have contributed in a crucial way to his election and they have the right to information about his activities. Luigi de Magistris is one of our employees on special mission abroad. His results will be reported at regular intervals on the blog. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

Interview with Luigi de Magistris

Blog: Luigi de Magistris as Chair of the European Union Budgetary Control Committee, what is the contribution that you are making to have the resources of the European tax payer arriving correctly at their destination?

Luigi de Magistris: So many things: we are working so that public finances do not finish up in the pockets of the predators of public resources, that is of those who have taken money, have given the money to corrupt politicians, to entrepreneurs who put the money in their pockets and to professionals who are their friends who have taken the money abroad with fiduciaries and that has then come back into the pockets of the parties. We are working above all to strengthen the fight against fraud by means of a better functioning of OLAF, the anti-fraud office, we have direct contacts with the European Commission so that it can grow its capacity to do preventive checking and follow-up checking. There are very strong signals: we are going to do four important missions to Greece, Hungary, Croatia and Italy where we will go to Lombardy to check up on the Expo, to Abruzzo for the earthquake funds and to Campania and Calabria, two of the regions where there have been the main forms of butchery of public resources and of EU resources. Italy is still at the bottom of the table from this point of view, however we are also taking forward important discussions that will make the fight more effective, even by means of the coming into existence of the office of European Public Prosecutor that we hope will happen in the shortest time possible. I too am working on this. I will have a big event in May, probably in Rome, because the European Public Prosecutor will have to deal with, among other things, money laundering, the fight against terrorism, the fight against the mafias, the fight against corruption and fraud in the European Union.

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