Man arrested in Lombardy Film Commission case

(ANSA) - MILAN, JUL 16 - A company liquidator was arrested Thursday in a probe into the Lombardy Film Commission.
    Luca Sostegni was stopped while trying to flee to Brazil.
    He is accused of embezzling funds from the Lombardy regional government, as well as extortion.
    Three accountants have already been placed under investigation in the probe.
    Police are also investigating funds belonging to the nationalist opposition League party.
    Sostegni has been charged with inflating the sale price of an industrial building at Cormano near Milan, which was sold to the film commission.
    The League has faced funding probes in the past.
    It was sentenced to repay 49 million euros in misappropriated funds over 80 years.
    It has also been at the centre of an alleged case of funding, which it denies, via purported Russian oil kickbacks, allegedly organised by a former aide of leader Matteo Salvini. (ANSA).