A Milan judge on Thursday upheld a
request from prosecutors to shelve an investigation into alleged
negotiations for Russian funding for Italy's League party.
The case centred on a meeting at Moscow's Metropol hotel in
October 2018 which the three Italians and three Russian
intermediaries allegedly discussed siphoning off 65 million
euros from the profits of an oil sale transaction.
So the probe into international corruption regarding Gianluca
Savoini, the former spokesman of League leader and
Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini, and the head of the
Lombardy-Russia association, lawyer Gianluca Meranda, and former
banker Francesco Vannucci has been dropped.
Photo: Gianluca Savoini.
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