(Finance) – Today in the Chamber of Senate is on the agendainformative of the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè“on the facts connected to a television journalistic report and subsequent press articles”. The references are the journalistic report of the Rai Report broadcast and the subsequent press articles which investigated the companies check by the minister, whose management has been scrutinized by Consob and the Milan prosecutor’s office, as well as a series of civil cases. The hypothesis ranging from false accounting to conceal financial instability to non-payment of employees and creditors, up to the incorrect use of funds disbursed to companies during the pandemic, never returned.
Then wait for it version official of the minister, self-defense on the conduct of her affairs prepared for what transpires with a team of lawyers. The information will be followed by a debate – 5 minutes of speech per group – but no votes.
Meanwhile the controversy do not subside after the approval – with the government’s favorable opinion – of an agenda presented by the Democratic Party which committed the government itself “to adopt any useful initiative in order to strengthen controls on the appropriate use of the extraordinary Covid fund, as well as of the other provisions envisaged during the pandemic phase and to sanction the operators who had used them in manner fraudulent, recovering the unlawfully received amounts with the utmost promptness”. The text explicitly mentioned the Report investigation and the “Visibilia Publishera company listed on the Stock Exchange, at the time controlled with 48.6 percent of the shares by Senator Santanchè”.
There majority try to regroup: the Prime Minister Georgia Melons he asked the allies to tone down, “not create problems” and postpone any decision to a possible indictment, which in any case should not arrive before the summer break. A line espoused by the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini: “Santanchè? I have absolute faith in my colleagues, we live in a country where one is innocent until proven guilty. I don’t compare myself with the left on the basis of investigations”.