Fabrizio Viola is a graduate in business administration from the Bocconi University.
[1] From May 2012 to 2016, he was the CEO and general manager of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest bank in the world.
[1] Starting in 2015, he was under investigation for alleged false accounting and market manipulation during his tenure as CEO of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
[6] On October 15, 2020, the Milan court sentenced Profumo and Viola to six years in prison in the first instance and ordered each of them to pay a fine of 2.5 million euros.
On December 11, 2023, the Milan Court of Appeal decided to acquit Profumo and Viola of the charges of false accounting and market manipulation because "the fact does not exist.