Gaetano Gifuni

Gaetano Gifuni (25 June 1932 – 18 August 2018) was an Italian civil servant and politician who served as Secretary General of the President from 1992 to 2006 and as Minister for Parliamentary Relations in 1987.[1]

Gaetano Gifuni

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Gifuni with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
Minister for Parliamentary Relations
In office
18 April 1987 – 26 July 1987
Prime MinisterAmintore Fanfani
Preceded byOscar Mammì
Succeeded bySergio Mattarella
Personal details
Born(1932-06-25)25 June 1932
Lucera, Italy
Died18 August 2018(2018-08-18) (aged 86)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Political partyIndependent
Alma materSapienza University of Rome

He is the father of actor Fabrizio Gifuni and uncle of Luigi Tripodi, former head of the Quirinale Estate and Gardens Service.

Biography

He graduated in law in 1955 and was hired by Confindustria.

On January 1, 1959, thanks to the passing of the relative competition, he entered the administration of the Senate of the Republic, of which he was appointed Secretary General on 26 June 1975.

In 1987 he served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the Fanfani VI Government (from 17 April to 27 July 1987).

Returning to the administrative top of the Senate of the Republic after the brief government break, he was appointed Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic by Oscar Luigi Scalfaro on 28 May 1992.

He was confirmed in this latter office by the subsequent President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 1999. From 1992 to 2008 he was a member of the Council of State. In 2006, on the eve of the inauguration of the new President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, he gave up to continue running the Quirinale machine under the latter's mandate and therefore has been Secretary General emeritus ever since.

He died in Rome on 18 August 2018, at the age of 86.[2]

Judicial proceedings

In 2009 Gaetano Gifuni was investigated for forgery. According to the accusation, it would have been his signature that allowed his nephew Luigi Tripodi to have the assignment as service accommodation of an illegal house within the Castelporziano estate.[3]

In April 2011 he was indicted for the management of the Castelporziano estate, relating to the squandering of the funds allocated by the Quirinale to the summer estate of the President of the Republic. The accusations were of abuse of office, false material and false ideology and embezzlement.[4]

In April 2013 he was sentenced in first instance to one year and 5 months of imprisonment for abuse of office and embezzlement and acquitted of the other charges, however in the degree of appeal he was acquitted of all charges: from embezzlement "because the fact does not constitute a crime", while for the abuse of office the offense - connected to the embezzlement and from which it would therefore have been acquitted in any case - was declared extinct due to a prescription.[5]

Honour

References
  1. È morto Gaetano Gifuni, ex segretario generale del Quirinale. Fu ministro del governo Fanfani (in Italian)
  2. Morto Gaetano Gifuni, aveva 86 anni
  3. Il caso delle tenute del Quirinale Indagato l'ex segretario Gifuni
  4. Gaetano Gifuni rinviato a giudizio Il pm: sperpero soldi del Quirinale
  5. Gifuni, ex segretario del Quirinale assolto e prescritto in appello
  6. "Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat Persekutuan".
  7. "Resolución N° 1428/003". www.impo.com.uy. Retrieved 2020-11-30.


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