If it weren’t true, it would be laughable. The head of the Bangladeshi community in Mestre, Prince Howlader, yesterday morning live on L’aria che tira, on La7, when asked about the failure to publish the financial statements of his association, after the news given by us yesterday on Libero, responded that he was right because he had sent the bank transfer receipts to Mediaset. And that his is a private association and therefore is not required to publish any financial statements. Well no. That’s not quite right.
Let’s start with a certain fact. Prince is the head of an association called “Giovani per l’umanità”. This has raised funds for the construction of the mosque on Via Giustizia, which the Muslims wanted to build, but for which they obtained a no from the mayor of Venice Simone Venturini. And this association, since registered with the Runts (national single register for the third sector) since 2022, is legally required to publish the financial statements.
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Having established this, yesterday we revealed some shadows precisely regarding the reports and financial statements of this social promotion APS which for the construction of the mosque had launched a copious marketing activity. They had prepared posters, renderings to share on social media, asking the faithful to make a donation, because if you donate 500 euros for one square meter of land, “then Allah will build you a house in Paradise”.
All donations had to be made to “Giovani per l’umanità”, precisely, which would have the obligation to draft the financial statement, approve it, present it, make it public, in short comply with those legal provisions that if they apply to millions of Italians, it is frankly unclear why they should not apply to the Bangladeshis. Try not declaring a euro, then see if the finance police or the tax bill doesn’t come to you.
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But let’s move on. It is the association’s own statute – even if Prince perhaps does not remember – that provides the obligation to draft the financial statement according to legal provisions. It is written in article 13, which Prince can go and reread. We went to check the website. And there is no sign of financial statements.
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We went to check the ministry’s register, but no trace of financial statements. We are talking about rivers of money. The land cost one and a half million euros. But the project is worth twenty million. There are people who have donated even ten thousand euros, is it possible that no one checks? As per the statute, the association also provides that they can carry out artistic, creative, cultural, sports activities, is it lawful – we ask – to raise funds for the construction of a place of worship?
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Now, after our report, Anna Maria Cisint, Lega MEP, is moving, who will file a complaint with the Guardia di Finanza of Venice. For the verification of “who actually collected and managed such sums, through which financial instruments, from which subjects they come, where they were deposited and what their actual destination was or should be,” since “financial statements or reports relating to the years following its registration do not appear to be available.”
Cisint also asks that checks be carried out on “the origin of the funds and the possible presence of sums coming from abroad.” “Prince says everything is fine – explains the MEP to Libero – but it is not so, since since 2022 they have not published the financial statements despite it being a mandatory requirement. Who pays the offerings? From which organizations do the funds come? Could they not come from subjects similar to the Brotherhood?”
