Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni on
Tuesday said reports that Cabinet Secretary Maria Elena Boschi
asked ex-Unicredit CEO Federico Ghizzoni to buy a troubled
Tuscan lender in 2015 would have no impact on the government.
Boschi's case "is known", Gentiloni told a press conference
in Beijing, referring to a book by former Corriere della Sera
editor-in-chief Ferruccio de Bortoli reporting that then-reform
minister Boschi spoke to Ghizzoni about the possibility of
buying Banca Etruria, of which her father was briefly a
vice-president.
"I don't see new developments and there are certainly no
implications for the government.
"It appears to me that she has fully clarified" her position,
Gentiloni told a press conference wrapping up his visit to
China.
Opposition members have called on Boschi to resign following
the report, which she has denied.
The Tuscan bank was one of four lenders that defaulted in
2015, leaving many savers with worthless bonds.
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