Giuseppe Ciarrapico (28 January 1934 – 14 April 2019) was an Italian entrepreneur, publisher and politician. He was president of the football club

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from 1991 and 1993, and a senator of Italy for

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party in 2008–2012. Ciarrapico was convicted and imprisoned several times due to his involvement in financial scandals.

Biography

Ciarrapico was born in

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, but grew up in

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. A supporter of

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in his youth, he was the printer for the manifestoes of the Italian neo-Fascist party, MSI, in his printing plant at

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. His publishing house also released revisionist books and pamphlets. Later in his life became nearer to

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's right-wing current within

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(then Italy's major centre party). Ciarrapico was also the owner of the large

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plants at Fiuggi, as well as of a series of private hospitals in Rome, of the

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company Air Capitol and of the Roman restaurant Casina Valadier. His holding Italfin '80, under which his properties were collected, went bankrupt in the early 1990s: after being prosecuted for bankruptcy in 1993, Ciarrapico was forced to abandon the presidency of Rome's football club

, which he had acquired in April 1991. Ciarrapico was tried and sentenced to years imprisonment, later reduced to 3 years. He was also involved in the Samif-Italsanità healthcare scandal, after which he was imprisoned at

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on 21 March 1993; in the same year he was again accused and imprisoned for illegal financing of political parties. He was also sentenced 5.5 years (later reduced to 4.5) in the trial for the

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bankrupt. In 1997 he founded a newspaper, '' Oggi Sicilia'', which was closed in 2000. Ciarrapico's chain of local newspapers also included '' Ciociaria Oggi'', '' Latina Oggi'' and ''Nuovo Oggi Molise''. In 2012 Ciarrapico's publishing company was sold because of financial difficulties. In 2010, when he was a senator for Silvio Berlusconi's party, part of his properties were confiscated by the

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due to Ciarrapico's illegal acquisition of state contributions for a total of 20 million euros between 2002 and 2007."Truffa ai danni dello Stato, indagato l'editore Ciarrapico"
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References

External links

Page at Openpolis.it
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