Business As Usual For Menarini Despite Managing Siblings’ Fraud Sentence
Executive Summary
Siblings Lucia and Alberto Giovanni Aleotti, respectively president and vice-president of Italian pharmaceutical company Menarini, have been sentenced for tax fraud by a court in Florence. Lucia Aleotti has resigned from the board of Farmindustria, Italy’s industry association, but its president Massimo Scaccabarozzi declared his expectation that they would be cleared on appeal. The case is far from closed.
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