Giampiero Catone (born 1 June 1956 in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, Campania) is an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography

Giampiero Catone was born on 1 June 1956 in

. He graduated in Political Sciences at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara. In 2005 he became responsible director for the political newspaper

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. In the 2006 general election Catone was elected in the Chamber of Deputies into the

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

list and he joined the DCA- NPSI group. In the 2008 general election Catone was again elected in the Chamber of Deputies with

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. On 23 September 2010, he left the PDL's group to join

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. On 14 December 2010 he decided to vote the trust to the Berlusconi Cabinet and he announced the abandonment of FLI, to switch to the mixed group. On 20 January 2011 he joined the

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group and on 5 May he was appointed Undersecretary to the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of the Berlusconi Cabinet. In March 2012 Catone joined with his clubs "La Discussione" to the new

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led by

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, while in November he founded

Popular Agreement Popular Agreement ( it, Intesa Popolare, IP) was a small political party in Italy led by Giampiero Catone. History Popular Agreement was founded in November 2012 by the deputy Giampiero Catone, member of the centre-right parliamentary group People ...

. In the 2013 general election Catone was candidated with Popular Agreement into the

centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-destra) is an alliance of political parties in Italy, active—under several forms and names—since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party. Despite ...

, but he was not re-elected.

Court proceedings

On 9 May 2001, Catone was arrested together with his brother Massimo and other twelve people on charges of conspiracy to aggravated fraud, forgery, false corporate communications and aggravated fraudulent bankruptcy. Catone was charged for two fraudulent bankruptcies by ₤25 billion each and the improper obtaining of ₤12 billion of non-repayable funding through the presentation of false documentation. On 23 February 2012 he was sentenced in first instance to eight years imprisonment for this event. In 2003, he was indicted for the failure of Abatec, an industry that manufactured diaper machines. The allegations put to him riguardarono various tax crimes, including false accounting and fraudulent bankruptcy. Cato was acquitted for 9 of the 12 counts, while the remaining 3 were declared prescribed.Abatec, il deputato Catone assolto alcuni reati sono stati prescritti
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References

External links

Giampiero Catone's blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Catone, Giampiero 1956 births Living people Italian journalists Politicians from Naples Christian Democratic Centre politicians Union of the Centre (2002) politicians Christian Democracy for the Autonomies politicians The People of Freedom politicians Future and Freedom politicians Christian Revolution politicians Deputies of Legislature XV of Italy Deputies of Legislature XVI of Italy D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara alumni