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Sergio Cusani
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Sergio Cusani (born 149) is an Italian businessman.
Quotes
From an interview by Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, Sergio Cusani, Sette, quoted in Interviste.sabellifioretti.it, 29 August 1993
I am only interested in playing my game, as it should be played, the game that fully engages me and that determines my life. I want it to be understood that I know how to play the game and that I intend to play it to the end, using all the permitted rules and all the allowed variations.
I do not speak against others because I have spoken enough against myself. You can't win by reporting others.
I have had the opportunity to observe that if there was little virtue in what is now dismissed as the "old system", there is equally little in what is now extolled as the "new system". It is not at all virtuous to feign amazement at the excesses of financial interventionism in the world of private or public production.
It is not even so virtuous to suddenly discover that the "politics of the powerful" has always had its price and has always been the subject of negotiations and business, often bad business. It was therefore necessary to criticise that policy in itself and not so much those deals. Otherwise, only the kind of business will change, but not the politics.
A system of legality is necessary. If garantism is not in fashion, let us reflect on the fact that once the well is empty, we all risk dying of thirst before it rains again.
It was a market within a market in which it was impossible, at least for me, to understand how the parts were distributed and what the basic script was, which in any case was very old. It is likely that it was the businessmen who offered themselves, since the politicians were waiting for offers.
I have lived too long in the "market" to seriously doubt that there is a "free" one.
About Bettino Craxi) It seems inhumane to me that he is now repudiated as the source of all the ills of Italian society.
It is an indecent scapegoat. If it is a matter of collapse, this collapse has very distant origins and also perennial sources of sustenance that are still current.
(About the Mani pulite judiciary pool) It is an irrefutable fact that they have a propensity to include the deprivation of personal liberty among their investigative tools.
Men change.
I knew Gardini before and after his irresistible rise. I prefer the memory of Gardini on the rise to that of Gardini after he had risen.
Quotes about
He is the only client in my entire career with whom I have gone from being formal to being on first-name terms. He maintained a clear and distinct line. He admitted his guilt, he paid for his crimes, but he didn't rush "to repent", as everyone did in those months, to denounce those he had worked with.
Giuliano Spazzali, from an interview by Gianni Barbacetto, Spazzali: "La mia Mani pulite, io a mani nude contro il Trio Lescano", Il Fatto Quotidiano, reported in Giannibarbacetto.it, 3 July 2017.
Sergio Cusani was the man who distributed billions to politicians on behalf of Raul Gardini. According to Antonio Di Pietro, he was the key to prosecuting the entire Italian political class. In the end, Cusani was the only one to end up in prison.
Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, quoted in Sergio Cusani, Sette; quoted in Sabellifioretti.it, 13 August 2003.
Cusani, Sergio
Category:1949 births
Category:Living people
Category:Businesspeople from Italy