Premier Matteo Renzi's Monday
criticism of Potenza prosecutors' probes into oil projects as
yielding results as often as the Olympics come round was
"inopportune in its timing and tenuous as regards the facts,"
the head of the Basilicata chapter of magistrates union ANM,
Salvatore Coella, said Tuesday. Renzi has been criticised for
saying the Potenza probes were too slow on a day when a verdict
was handed down in an investigation that started in 2008. Renzi
insisted that he wants justice to do its work swiftly, unlike
predecessors such as Silvio Berlusconi. The government has been
rocked by a probe into suspected waste trafficking and illegal
waste disposal at an oil project in Basilicata, over which
industry minister Federica Guidi resigned Thursday after being
caught on the phone telling her oil-industry boyfriend, Gianluca
Gemelli, of an amendment favouring the project.
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