Overview
- On November 20, a first-instance judge at Rome’s Tribunale monocratico di piazzale Clodio found Giuseppe Milazzo Andreani guilty of aggravated fraud and imposed a one-year suspended sentence.
- Gianna Orrù, 84, alleged she transferred roughly €335,000 between 2018 and 2019 for promised investments on cryptocurrency and online trading platforms that never materialized.
- Milazzo initially entered the family’s orbit as a film producer before presenting himself as an authorized online-trading expert, having been introduced to Orrù by her daughter, Valeria Marini.
- Orrù said she began with small sums and then increased the amounts, reinvesting purported gains until the transfers accumulated to the contested total.
- Milazzo denies wrongdoing and intends to appeal, with the case following a complaint filed in February 2020 and a trial that began in March 2024.