(ANSA) - Genoa, May 21 - A judge on Thursday indicted
ex-Northern League chief Umberto Bossi and ex-party treasurer
Francesco Belsito on charges of cheating the State out of 40
million euros in electoral reimbursements. The former treasurer
of the anti-immigrant, anti-euro party is also charged with the
aggravated embezzlement of 25 million euros from party coffers,
which he allegedly invested in shares and diamonds in Cyprus and
Tanzania. The trial opens September 23.
Bossi, Belsito indicted for fraud
Ex-Northern League chief 'cheated State out of 40 million'