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ReportMan sets himself on fire at Rome-Fiumicino Airport, his conditions are critical (VIDEO)
Rome, Italy - Terminal 3 evacuated and closed for a few minutes
In the morning of Thursday 14 February 2013 a man set himself on fire in the Departures Hall of Rome's "Leonardo Da Vinci" Intercontinental Airport. Reportedly the person involved was a 18 or 19 yo boy... more
ReportInvestigation about sale of AW helicopters to India, Tyagi: "I am innocent, I want an inquiry"
New Delhi, India - The former Chief of Air Staff suspected of having favoured the subsidiary of Finmeccanica
The inquiry about the alleged bribery relative to the purchase of 12 AW-101 helicopters to the Indian government, which led to the arrest of Giuseppe Orsi, Finmeccanica Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,... more
ReportIndia suspends payment of AgustaWestland AW-101 helicopters
Rome, Italy - Shares of the Italian group suspended due to excessive volatility
Breaking news from "The Times of India" claim that the payment of the 12 AW-101 helicopters purchased in 2010 by the Indian government has been suspended: the 566-million-Euro order is in the middle of... more
ReportIndian Minister for Defense: "The contract for Finmeccanica helicopters? We will take strongest possible action"
New Delhi, India - "Everything depends on CBI inquiry, nobody will be spared"
On Wednesday 13 February 2013 Indian Minister for Defense A. K. Antony, meeting the journalists at a press conference in New Delhi, declared that the government of the South-Asian country means to "Take... more
ReportHelicopters and courts. Orsi's lawyer defines "Unreasonable" the arrest of Finmeccanica CEO
Rome, Italy - Assignment of the mandates for day-to-day management to Pansa very probable in tomorrow's board meeting
According to Ennio Amodio, lawyer of Giuseppe Orsi, the arrest of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, which occurred today in the context of the inquiry on an alleged bribery in the... more
ReportAircraft and industry. Finmeccanica, now what? Possible promotion for Venturoni and Pansa?
Rome, Italy - Consob bans short selling on shares of the group on Tuesday and Wednesday
The arrest of Giuseppe Orsi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, and of Bruno Spagnolini, in the context of the investigation on an alleged bribe connected to the sale of 12 AW-101 helicopters... more
ReportIndia starts probe into the purchase of 12 AW-101 helicopters from Finmeccanica
New Delhi, India - New Delhi's Ministry for Foreign Affairs requests the Italian government to provide details on the issue
Indian Minister for Defence A. K. Anthony ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the purchase by the Indian government of 12 AW-101 helicopters, following to the arrest of Giuseppe... more
ReportHelicopters and courts. Political and union reactions to the arrest of Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi
Rome, Italy - Ingroia: "The company has been dismantled by corruption and deviant business practices"
The arrests of Giuseppe Orsi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, and of Bruno Spagnolini, head of the group's subsidiary AgustaWestland, for an alleged bribe relative to the supply... more
ReportOrsi's arrest (3): India to undertake "Suitable action" if bribery in the helicopter procurement is proved
Rome, Italy - "We will go to the root of the problem"
The arrests of Giuseppe Orsi, president and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, and of Bruno Spagnolini, head of the subsidiary of the Italian group AgustaWestland in the context of an inquiry regarding... more
ReportAircraft and industry. After the arrest of Orsi (2), Finmeccanica shares collapse
Rome, Italy - Monti: "We will deal with the issue of the governance of the group"
The arrests of Giuseppe Orsi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, and of Bruno Spagnolini, head of the group's subsidiary AgustaWestland (AVIONEWS) are already generating serious consequences... more
ReportOrsi (Finmeccanica CEO) arrested for alleged bribery in the sale of 12 helicopters to India
Rome, Italy - House arrest for Bruno Spagnolini, head of AgustaWestland
Giuseppe Orsi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, was arrested today, Tuesday 12 February 2013, by command of a Busto Arsizio judge, in the charge of international corruption for alleged... more
ReportNaples' Finmeccanica inquiry: the "Mystery" of Putin's helicopter
Naples, Italy - The public prosecutors are investigating the attitude change between the group and the Russian federation
"The boss does not want Putin to be mentioned, we can talk about 'Heads of State', not about Putin": this is what AgustaWestland chief executive officer Bruno Spagnolini told Marco Acca, responsible for... more
ReportHelicopters and industry. Finmeccanica advisor arrested and released in Switzerland
Lugano, Switzerland - Guido Ralph Haschke accused of money-laundering and bribery
Guido Ralph Haschke, advisor and intermediary of Finmeccanica Group, was arrested and released within a day in Lugano (Switzerland): he is accused of money-laundering and corruption of foreign officials.... more
ReportEx-Alenia executive arrested for fraud connected to the supply of 15 aircraft to Austria
Rome, Italy - Pierluigi Romagnoli is connected to the "Italian Madoff"
Former Alenia (Finmeccanica group) executive Pierluigi Romagnoli has been arrested in Rome for criminal bankruptcy, related to a mega-fraud to the detriment of thousands of investors in the Italian capital... more
ReportOrsi-Gotti Tedeschi controversy on alleged fake consultancy by Economy Minister's wife
Rome, Italy - "I have never in my life ordered consultancy services from Mrs Grilli"
A heated exchange took place today between former president of the Vatican bank IOR Ettore Gotti Tedeschi and the chief executive officer and president of the Finmeccanica Group Giuseppe Orsi: the Italian... more
ReportFinmeccanica: news about ORNGE
Toronto, Canada - AgustaWestland calls for compensation
Rainer Beltzner, former ORNGE board chair, "Stunned a legislative inquiry" with new information on the former CEO, Chris Mazza and about the alleged illegal payments related to a contract for Italian helicopters... more
ReportFinmeccanica sells technology to Damascus: Wikileaks reports 2.5 million emails
Rome, Italy - Relations between Selex Sistemi Integrati and Damascus after the beginning of the conflict
While the UN and Nato is condemning Russian arms exports in Syria, the latest revelation from Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, reports that Finmeccanica is among the firms which supply technology... more
ReportBR slogan against Orsi found inside Finmeccanica's Ansaldo Energia office
Rome, Italy - "This is the work of a fantasist"
Today May 18,2012, a slogan with the signature of the BR (Brigate Rosse, the Italian terrorist group who kidnapped and then killed the Italian catholic political party leader Aldo Moro in 1978) was found... more
ReportAlenia-Aermacchi and AgustaWestland: "We are under fire"
Rome, Italy - Worker unions worried by the attempt against Adinolfi
Alenia-Aermacchi and AgustaWestland have increased the security level of their facilities after the attempt against Ansaldo CEO, Roberto Adinolfi. Paolo Carini, from the Italian union Fim Cisl, explains... more
ReportAgustaWestland and ORNGE. Bartolotta: "Well, we do this all the time"
Toronto, Canada - ORNGE executive under investigation due to alleged Finmeccanica's illegal payments
The Ontario committee investigation continues about an alleged kickback scheme which involves the ORNGE (the Ontario air ambulance service agency that receives about $150 million a year from the province)... more
ReportItalian party "Lega Nord" denies Finmeccanica's bribe related to Indian helicopters (2)
Rome, Italy - "Anyone who associates 'Lega Nord' with Finmeccanica's bribes will be prosecuted by law".
The investigation in Lugano (AVIONEWS started today April 24 2012 created shivers inside the Italian political party "Lega Nord" in the space of a few hours. The "Lega", through the words of the Italian... more
ReportFlooding in Rome (2): inconveniences at the Fiumicino airport as well
Rome, Italy - Roman coast effected too
Last night's storm arrived on the Roman coast too which till the early hours of this morning has caused flooding and landslides, to such a the point that the mayor Gianni Alemanno asked for a state of... more
ReportGuarguaglini (Finmeccanica) denies that he has ever accepted Berlusconi's proposal
Rome, Italy - Declared during an interview with "Il Messaggero"
The newspaper "Il Messaggero" published an interview of Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, president of Finmeccanica, one of the most important industries of the Italian economy which has lately been in the limelight... more
ReportFrom Italian "L'Espresso" this week: Finmeccanica-Lavitola Panama deals
Rome, Italy - The contract seems to be partly funded by Italy
According to the weekly journal "L'Espresso", Valter Lavitola mediation, investigated by the Naples public prosecutor for alleged extortion against the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, seem to have guaranteed... more
ReportFinmeccanica and the Libyan business
Rome, Italy - The Group has several interests in the Country in the aerospace, energy, transportation, aviation and helicopter fields
It is going on in Libya, between contrasting news, rumours and denials, the fight between rebels and loyalists to Gaddafi's regime: a situation currently in the public eye and monitored particularly by... more
ReportFinmeccanica on Libyan contracts: "We think they will be fulfilled"
Tripoli, Libya - According to the company's CEO, there's no reason for which Libya's situation should bring to a change of the ongoing agreements
Finmeccanica's CEO Giuseppe Orsi commented on the developments of the political situation in Libya, where rebels -armed against the loyalists- have now taken control of 90% of the capital city (see AVIONEWS):... more
ReportItalian ENAV nominations close to mid-August: the government works tirelessly
Rome, Italy - The new nominations after Capaldo's discharge
ENAV, Italian flight assistance society, back to get itself talked about following the new nomination designated yesterday by the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Tremonti, who has chosen Varazzani... more
ReportMarco Milanese-Giulio Tremonti-Lorenzo Cola affair
Rome, Italy - According to the press unveiled in the last days
The press on July 28 published that, in the ambit of the Marco Milanese-Giulio Tremonti-Lorenzo Cola affair, the last (indicated as Finmeccanica "Friend"), in order to obtain the confirm of Pierfrancesco... more
ReportCola tells about how Libya entered in Finmeccanica
Rome, Italy - The consultant answers to questions of public prosecutor Henry John Woodcock
Yesterday's "Il Sole 24 Ore" reported a reconstruction of the answers of Lorenzo Cola, former consultant of Finmeccanica, to the questions of the public prosecutor Henry John Woodcock about the entry of... more
Report"Fraud Parioli": searched based Alenia Aeronautica, a company producing aircraft
Rome, Italy - In the viewfinder providing 18 fighter aircraft to the Austrian Ministry of Defence: it's about a check for 84 million euros
Have started yesterday morning searches of financiers in Rome and Abruzzo office of the bank Carispaq , in which Lande and his associates had their accounts and moving their money, and the premises of... more
ReportOrsi new CEO of Finmeccanica
Rome, Italy - Guarguaglini is only the president
By this evening it will be official the choice of the Government, after the close of the stock market. A new man for each of the major Groups in public with the top end. For Finmeccanica there is a... more
ReportConfirmations in sight for the top Finmeccanica, Eni, Enel, Terna and the Italian Post Office?
Rome, Italy - Pole position for Giuseppe Orsi for the office of CEO in Finmeccanica
It would seem that public appointments are now in the process of composition as reported by the Italian press at this time. Confirmations in sight for Paolo Scaroni, Fulvio Conti, Flavio Cattaneo and Massimo... more
ReportFinmeccanica repatriates about 10 employees from Libya
Tripoli, Libya - Due to anti-government riots in the Country
According to a company spokesperson, Finmeccanica in these hours would be making repatriate from Libya less than ten workers employed by AgustaWestland. They would be only part of the fifty employees... more
ReportBorgogni, hours at the prosecutor office: interrogation marked as secret
Rome, Italy - The collaborator closest to Guarguaglini presented himself voluntarily to the magistrates, that will interrogate him again
Lorenzo Borgogni, responsible for Institutional Relations of the company Finmeccanica and the closest of President Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, last week-end had requested through his lawyers to have a... more
ReportTerrorism alert at Rome-Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - Stopped a man with a knife in one of his shoes, whom should have embarked on an airplane to the US
Yesterday at the airport of Rome-Fiumicino was stopped an American man, Peter S., whom was going to embark on a United Airlines' plane to Washington, United States, with a knife between the sole and heel... more
ReportSpadaccini's arrest: who are the other 12 people remanded in custody
Pescara, Italy - In the "Flying money" operation, by the Pescara financial police
As we anticipated (see AVIONEWS) are thirteen, globally, the people arrested this morning by the Pescara financial police in the operation called "Flying money" in reference to the principal activity of... more
ReportGeneral Tricarico: not enough Italian airplanes, helicopters, UAVs in Afghanistan
Rome , Italy - Choppers like the EH-101 are lacking; the others have to be empowered and/or armed
Landed this morning at Rome-Ciampino airport, the C-130 aircraft carrying the bodies of the first corporals Gianmarco Manca, Francesco Vannozzi, Sebastiano Ville and Marco Pedone, dead in the district... more
ReportJulia's corporals killed in Afghanistan: the airplane bringing them back to the Country landed at 9:00 am
Rome , Italy - The corpses of Manca, Pedone, Ville and Vannozzi welcomed by highest authorities, among whom the head of State
The bodies of the Brigade Julia's four alpines killed last Saturday in the valley of Gullistan, Afghanistan, are returned home with honors and will have a solemn funeral tomorrow, at the presence of the... more
ReportFiumicino Airport: 125k Euro fines on fake taxi drivers
Rome, Italy - Foreign tourists preferred prey of illegal drivers: their rates twice the standard
Carabinieri of the Airports Company blitz on illegal taxi drivers in Fiumicino “Leonardo Da Vinci”. The harvest of the operation found 173 violations and 17 high road traffic contraventions, a total of... more
ReportBody scanner, the Pope: "Respect for the person"
Rome, Italy - Meeting Saturday with representatives of the Italian air transport
Pope Benedict XVI Saturday met representatives of the Italian air transport, managers and employees, to underline the importance of their work also in making the Pope's journeys safe and secure. But he... more
ReportAntonio Tajani will be in charge of the Galileo sat programme for the European Commission
Brussels, Belgium - The Italian man will almost certainly be the new EU commissioner for Industry and Tourism
Antonio Tajani, as anticipated by the Italian "Adnkronos" quoting informed sources, will be appointed to the role of European commissioner for Industry extended to the Galileo sat programme and Tourism.... more
ReportItaly: Atitech workers protest, hangar blocked at Naples airport
Naples, Italy - Meeting with the government deferred to Monday
An Airbus A-321 aircraft that had just been repaired was blocked today inside its hangar at Naples-Capodichino airport by Atitech workers protesting because they didn't receive the salary for August yet.... more
ReportItaly, Atitech: salaries will arrive thanks to IesMed?
Rome, Italy - The situation might be unlocked today
Atitech workers' salaries might be unlocked already today, after the agreement reached in these days between Investimenti e Sviluppo Mediterraneo (IesMed) CEO, Giovanni Lettieri, Alitalia-CAI extraordinary... more
ReportItaly, Atitech: meeting today in Rome
Naples, Italy - The company is facing months of uncertainty and on Friday it risks to be closed
A meeting is going to be held today in Rome between representatives from the government, Alitalia-CAI (Compagnia aerea italiana) management and trade unions to save Atitech, Naples-based company that performed... more
ReportRome airports prepare to the Champions League final
Rome, Italy - 50,000 will be arriving in the Italian capital for Wednesday's night
Rome airports "Leonardo da Vinci" in Fiumicino and "Giovan Battista Pastine" in Ciampino are preparing to receive the 50,000 expected supporters of Manchester United and Barcelona that will arrive in these... more
ReportHis Holiness Benedict XVI flies with Alitalia for his pastoral visit in Jordan
Rome, Italy - On board of the A-320 "Dante Alighieri" aircraft
"It will be an Alitalia aircraft to accompany His Holiness Benedict XVI in his flight from Rome to Amman, first stage of his pastoral visit in the Holy Land that will begin on May 8. Alitalia is honoured... more
ReportFirst results of the "Finmeccanica for Abruzzo" solidarity initiative
Rome, Italy - The Group has around 700 employees in the L'Aquila area
A week after the launch of the "Finmeccanica for Abruzzo" initiative, Finmeccanica informs that good results are already being achieved, thanks to the contributions from Group companies based all over... more
ReportRep. John Murtha visited the Boeing facilities in Washington State...
Seattle, USA - ...and proposed to divide the mega-tender for the replacement of USAF KC-30 Tanker
U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, is the man of the moment. In the last days he came to the fore as the most important opposer for the cost's increase... more
ReportRome-Beirut, flights cancelled
Rome, Italy - Minister Frattini announces national airlift to repatriate Italians
Situation in Beirut is worsening after the fights between Shiite Hezbollah and anti-Syrian troopes which are destroying the city in last hours. At the moment, every flights scheduled from Rome-Fiumicino... more
Report"Leonardo da Vinci" airport, seized 3 kilograms of drug
Rome, Italy - Arrested a Nigerian and a Maltese
Lupin, a drug dog of the Rome-Fiumicino airport financial police, found 6 wrappings which contain 2 kilograms of cocaine and 1 of heroin, hidden inside the shoes of two men just landed. Two narco-traffickers,... more