Prosecutors on Monday asked that
former House Speaker Gianfranco Fini be put on trial in a money
laundering case.
They also requested the indictment of Fini's partner
Elisabetta Tulliani and her father and brother, Sergio and
Giancarlo, along with slot-machine king Francesco Corallo.
"I am innocent," said Fini.
"I have full confidence in the judiciary," he said.
"The request of the investigators was to be expected," Fini
said in a statement.
Former foreign minister Fini, 66, a former neo-Fascist
leader, was once the heir-apparent of three-time ex-premier
Silvio Berlusconi, the media magnate and centre-right Forza
Italia leader.
His fall from grace was linked to a Monte Carlo house
belonging to Fini's former post-Fascist party that was sold to
Giancarlo Tulliani, and was the centre of a 2010 probe.
Tulliani is still facing legal action over the house.
Tulliani, was arrested in Dubai in early November after being
on the run since March in the money laundering probe.
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