Former industry minister Federica
Guidi complained that her oil-industry boyfriend Gianluca
Gemelli was treating her like a "sculler maid" in insistently
asking her for favours, according to wiretaps in Italian dailies
Thursday.
"All you do is ask me for favours, I'm not a skullery
maid," Guidi is heard saying to Gemelli, over whose involvement
in a southern Italian oil probe she stood down last Thursday.
In another wiretap she complains to Gemelli about her
deputy, Claudio De Vincenti, and says Economy Minister Pier
Carlo Padoan owed his post to the oil lobby.
In another wiretap between Gemelli and an industry ministry
consultant, reference is made to an incriminating dossier on
Transport and Infrastructure Minister Graziano Delrio.
On Thursday Gudi travelled to the southern city of Potenza
where she was being quizzed by prosecutors investigating
suspected graft, waste trafficking and illegal waste disposal at
a pol projects by Total and Eni in the Basilicata region.
Guidi resigned over a wiretap in which she told Gemelli
about a government amendment in favour of the Tempa Rossa
project in which he stood to earn 2.5 million euros.
Gemelli is under investigation for conspiracy to commit
corruption and illegal influence trafficking.
Heading into the questioning session Guidi, who is not
under investigation, said "I will clear everything up."
In un'altra, Guidi parla con lui del suo vice De
Vincenti e del ministro dell'Economia Padoan. Intercettazioni,
inoltre, di una conversazione con Gemelli di un consulente del
ministero dello Sviluppo in cui si fa riferimento ad un dossier
sul ministro Infrastrutture, Delrio. Stamani la Guidi (che non è
indagata) è a Potenza per un faccia a faccia con i pm come
persona informata sui fatti.
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