Chiara Ferragni Facing Legal Consequences Over Pandoro Gate Scandal

After the social storm, and not only, that hit her in the days before Christmas, the 'pandoro gate' risks having a long judicial aftermath for the influencer Chiara Ferragni. After that of Milan which on December 19 opened a file delegating the investigations to the Guardia di Finanza, now also the Prato Prosecutor's Office has turned a spotlight on the affair by initiating a procedure, at the moment without suspects or hypotheses of crime. A legal initiative to the complaint filed by Codacons as well as in other 101 judicial offices and in which the crime of aggravated fraud to the detriment of consumers is hypothesized. An act due by the Tuscan prosecutor for a now known affair: the purchase, in 2022, of the Pink Christmas Pandoro would have contributed to a donation in favor of the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin. A charitable activity in reality already carried out by Balocco, the company that produced the Christmas cake branded Ferragni, put on sale last year at a price far higher than the market one. In the complaint, the consumer association recalls that 'buying the pandoro could contribute to the donation and that Mrs. Ferragni was participating in the initiative, a circumstance that turned out not to be true'. The Prato procedure therefore travels parallel to the one started days ago in Milan. The Milanese magistrates have entrusted the investigations to the Guardia di Finanza. The Yellow Flames, as part of the investigative activity, have also planned the acquisition of documents at the Antitrust. In particular in the file, in which the crime of fraud in commerce could be hypothesized, will end the papers relating to the investigation which ended with a maxi fine for unfair commercial practice for both the entrepreneur's companies from Cremona and for the Piedmontese confectionery company, which however recorded losses from the promotional campaign of the pink pandoro. The activity of the Milanese pm also concerns the Easter eggs chapter of Dolci Preziosi. The company based in Bari, which in recent days has clarified that it has no responsibility in the matter, had paid Ferragni a fee of 500 thousand euros in 2021 and 700 thousand euros in 2022, against a donation made autonomously by the same company of 36 thousand euros to the association 'I bambini delle Fatè'. The wife of Fedez in one of the social posts, then deleted, had written a message inviting to use the 'Easter to do good', adding that it was a 'special project' in favor of a 'company (...) that since 2005 has been supporting families with autism and other disabilities'. In this second case, however, the price of Easter eggs was not increased, as happened for the pink pandoros.