Deputy Premier and Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that he will report to
parliament about suspicions a person close to his League party
discussed taking funding via oil kickbacks from Russia.
"I certainly will go to parliament," Salvini said in Genoa
when asked about calls for him to report to the parliament over
the case.
"That is my job. I go bi-weekly and for the question-time
session, during which I respond about all human knowledge,
always".
Salvini said his party has not taken a rouble off the
Russians and described the case as "ridiculous".
Milan prosecutors opened a probe after reports that
Lombardy-Russia Association President Paolo Savoini met with two
other Italians and three Russian in a Moscow hotel to discuss
siphoning off an alleged 65 million euros from oil profits.
The minister has denied inviting Savoini to take part in two
bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin
recently.
On Tuesday Milan prosecutor Francesco Greco said there was
"absolutely" no need to question Salvini about the case, adding
that it was set to be a "long, complex, difficult" probe.
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