A Cagliari judge on
Wednesday sent Culture Undersecretary Francesca Barracciu to
trial on charges of alleged aggravated misappropriation of
Sardinia regional assembly funds. The trial will start on
February 2, 2016. Prosecutors have contested 81,000 euros
claimed by Barracciu, a member of Premier Matteo Renzi's
centre-left Democratic Party (PD), for fuel expenses for travel
around the island in her car when she was a regional councillor.
Barracciu won the primary to be the centre-left candidate for
governor in Sardinia in 2013 but withdrew after it emerged she
was under investigation.
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