Deputy Premier and Transport and
Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini demanded apologies on
Thursday after an investigation into alleged negotiations for
Russian funding for his League party was shelved.
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.
"Investigation into alleged Russian funds of the Metropol case
shelved," Salvini said via Twitter.
"We now expected apologies and we are preparing law suits for
many people".
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