An interesting detail that’s tucked into the lawsuit filed this week by the son of former Vancouver Canucks co-owner Paolo Aquilini is the actual structure of how the Aquilinis control Vancouver’s still most popular sporting franchise. Article content

And if you read it carefully, you’ll discover that before 2015, more than a decade after the Aquilinis first bought into the Canucks, Luigi Aquilini, the man who started it all, didn’t technically have a controlling ownership stake — but one of the consequences of how he apparently reorganized the so-called Elisa trust was he had a direct controlling stake in the team post-2015, through the 40 per cent stake that the trust held in the Aquilini Investment Group. The other 60 per cent was held by Luigi’s three sons, Francesco, Roberto and

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