Interview with Giuseppe Orsi, Chairman and CEO of Finmeccanica Group – TG 5
Laura Ciarallo:Mr Orsi have you received notice that you are under investigation?Giuseppe Orsi:No I was informed on Tuesday afternoon by an ANSA news report that I would be investigated.Laura Ciarallo:How do you respond to the accusations made by the former head of External Relations Borgogni that you set up slush funds used by the company to pay bribes?Giuseppe Orsi:I have never set up slush funds and I have never paid bribes, however that these accusations are being made by a person who had to leave the company when I arrived, leaves much to be believed about the credibility of the accusations.Laura Ciarallo:There have been stories about six Maserati’s for personal use?Giuseppe Orsi:The six Maserati’s were part of an agreement with Fiat when Fiat acquired an Italian helicopter rather than a French helicopter and they asked us to use Italian cars as company cars instead of foreign cars, an agreement which at the time we also advertised to promote technology made in Italy,Laura Ciarallo:Does this legal storm created by the media risk compromising the image of the company as a company of excellence, at an international level as well?Giuseppe Orsi:Yes certainly, we are at the beginning of a very difficult and delicate restructuring. The markets are watching us day after day, betting on whether we can deliver this restructuring. Every day thousands of our seventy thousand employees throughout the world are trying to bring home contracts to promote Italy and the Finmeccanica name. Yes this storm certainly affects all of these things.

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