{"id":363104,"date":"2026-03-28T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363104\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:32:08","slug":"paul-sharks-aspesis-judicial-administration-procedures-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363104\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul & Shark\u2019s, Aspesi\u2019s Judicial Administration Procedures Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMILAN \u2014 A Milan court rejected prosecutors\u2019 request to place\u00a0Paul & Shark<\/a>\u2019s parent Dama SpA and\u00a0Aspesi<\/a>\u2019s Alberto Aspesi & C. SpA under judicial administration for their alleged negligence in auditing their suppliers.<\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Roberto Crepaldi ruled against the prosecutors\u2019 move, arguing that the legal grounds for the requested measure were not met as there is no proof that \u00a0Paul & Shark<\/a>\u2019s chief executive officer Andrea Dini and Aspesi\u2019s board member Francesco Umile Chiappetta acted \u201cin concert\u201d in committing the offense.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe development comes as part of a labor abuse case filed earlier this month by Milan prosecutors Daniela Bartolucci and Paolo Storari, who reportedly found that both companies subcontracted part of their manufacturing to Chinese-owned firms Gmax 365 Srl and M&G Confezioni Srl. Both are based in Garbagnate Milanese, in the Milan suburbs, and allegedly exploited their workers in reportedly underpaid, 14-hour work shifts.<\/p>\n

\n\tCrepaldi attributed the full responsibility to\u00a0\u00a0the manufacturing companies, whose owners are under investigation.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past two years\u00a0supply chain<\/a> scandals have rocked the luxury fashion industry in Italy, shaking both its reputation and business practices.<\/p>\n

\n\tInvestigations by a Milan court that uncovered ties of luxury brands such as Tod\u2019s, Loro Piana, Valentino, Dior and Giorgio Armani, among others, to subcontractors allegedly involved in sweatshop schemes have raised concerns about the industry\u2019s ability to manage its supply chains effectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll the above brands have been put under judicial administration to correct and enhance audits and oversight through court-mandated procedures, with the exception of Tod\u2019s, which obtained that the judicial administration procedure be handled by an Ancona, Italy court, which has yet to rule.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimultaneously, the maker of Gommino loafers and three of its managers are being investigated by prosecutors over suspected labor abuses and accused of allegedly ignoring the findings of inspections by local authorities into the company\u2019s subcontractors.<\/p>\n

\n\tDior\u2019s and Giorgio Armani\u2019s probes have been fully resolved and the judicial oversight has been lifted.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, last fall some 13 fashion companies fell under the scrutiny of the same Milan prosecutors and were asked to provide documents on governance and supply chain<\/a> audits for preliminary probes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe names involved included Prada, Versace, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferragamo, Missoni, Givenchy Italia, Yves Saint Laurent Manifatture, Alexander McQueen Italia, Adidas Italy, Off-White Operating, Coccinelle and Pinko. None of these have been put under judicial administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 A Milan court rejected prosecutors\u2019 request to place\u00a0Paul & Shark\u2019s parent Dama SpA and\u00a0Aspesi\u2019s Alberto Aspesi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,175252,4872],"class_list":{"0":"post-363104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-paul-shark","12":"tag-supply-chain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}