Luigi Rossi di Montelera

Luigi Rossi di Montelera (14 May 1946 – 15 November 2018) was an Italian company manager and politician from the Christian Democracy.

Biography

A member of the noble Rossi di Montelera family from Piedmont, Luigi Rossi di Montelera graduated in Law at the University of Turin.

Kidnapping

On 14 November 1973, at the age of 27, Rossi di Montelera was kidnapped by a group of bandits of the Corleone Mafia family, led by Luciano Leggio, and held as a prisoner in the bunker of a farmhouse in Treviglio, near Bergamo. He was freed by the agents of the Guardia di Finanza on 14 March 1974, after a long and complex investigative activity. From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the board of directors of the General Confederation of Italian Industry and from 2004 to 2008 president of the Piedmont division of Confindustria. Rossi di Montelera has also been a member of the board of directors of the Saving Banks of Turin.