Scandal / Beccheti bribed the Arbitration to win against Albania: Businesses and "start ups" of the judges' children were opened (ACCUSSION)

The details of the scandal involving the well-known businessman Francesco Becchetti are revealed.

Beccheti invested large sums of money to create business opportunities for people close to the members of the arbitration, in exchange for them choosing a president in his favor, in the arbitration against the Albanian state.

This scandal was brought to light by Marco Giontella, one of his associates. Giontella recounts how Beccheti and his friends, after having influenced the appointment of the two arbitrators prearranged by them, approached the secretary of the arbitration institution, whose role it was to select the third arbitrator.

With his money, Bechet created businesses and startups for the children of key people in arbitration, mainly in the energy field. The businessman who today demands 100 million euros from Albania, deliberately planned the arbitration schemes in order to win them later through corrupt connections.

Conversation:

Agent: Let me understand correctly. The secretary general of the ICC, or, from what I understood today, the secretary of the arbitral institution chooses the third party (judge).

Mr. Giontella: Yes.

Agent: The President.

Mr. Giontella: Yes.

Agent: How did your client ensure that this secretary of the arbitration institution elected the president he wanted? One or two.

Mr Giontella: Because they had contacts.

Agent: With…

Mr. Giontella: Yes. Agent: No, with..

Mr Giontella: With his friends.

Agent: With the secretary's friends?

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: Of the institution?

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: Of the arbitration institution

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes, yes

Agent: So he knows someone who knows the secretary of…

Mr Giontella: His friends.

Agent: His friends, he knows them.

Mr. Giontella: Yes.

Agent: And he chose on behalf of your client.

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: One and two? One or two?

Mr Giontella: And not three and four.

Agent: Not three and four.

Mr Giontella: And not three and four.

Agent: And one and two, do they know your client? They are, they…

Mr Giontella: One and two.

Agent: Are they friends, do they support each other?

Mr. Giontella: Yes, they support. They support.

Agent: And the friends of the secretary of the arbitration institution?

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: How would they do that? And they also have a relationship?

Mr Giontella: Only relationships. Only. Only.

Agent: And, would it also be giving them?

Mr Giontella: Look, 200 million that they earned and Deutsche Bank paid them.

Agent: From Deutsche Bank, yes.

Mr Giontella: Half, they were used, they were used to build the other arbitrage. To build.

Agent: The relationship.

Mr Giontella: The opportunity and the relationship, to manage it.

Mr. Giontella: Yes, he has invested a lot of money to create business opportunities for the associates of the committees of the arbitration institution, to ensure influence on the selection of a favorable president. But to give work, you have to create something. Because you can't give jobs without creating opportunities. You have to create job opportunities. And to create this opportunity, he has invested a lot of money.

Agent: Yes, give me an example. What opportunity? What do you have in mind?

Mr. Giontella: Yes. Opportunity means creating an activity. An activity that enables the children of these people to start this activity

Agent: So as an initial activity?

Mr. Giontella: Yes. Like a…, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Agent: So he used them.

Mr Giontella: Because he is a person who works with energy and green energy, or with all kinds of energy. And they have many initiatives, start-ups, new technology.

Agent: So he put them before one of his initiatives.

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: As a first representative.

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes, yes.

Agent: Where they can make money.Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: And they are the children of people he knows.

Mr Giontella: Yes, of people, yes

Agent: Who know the secretary of the arbitration institution.

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes, yes, yes

Agent: Who made it?

Mr Giontella: So the contact was…

Agent: Through them.

Mr. Giontella: Yes.

Agent: And he named one and two

Mr Giontella: Yes, yes.

Agent: Who he knew before, who had a relationship.

Mr. Giontella: Yes. Yes, it is. This is it.

Agent: And the fund, of course, that's how they make money. But if… you… your client, in this case, is able to choose the arbitrator. So, of course, everyone can pick the umpire, but surely it becomes possible for him to be on his side, right? It's not just relationships, is it?