League leader and Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini reiterated Wednesday that he had never taken
money from Russia.
Responding to a Buzzfeed report on an alleged meeting between
men close to him and Kremlin officials, Salvini said "I have
already sued for libel in the past, I'll do so again today,
tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
"I've never taken a rouble, a euro, a dollar or a litre of
vodka in funding from Russia."
Salvini said after a report in newsweekly L'Espresso earlier
this year that the League did not get any illegal funding from
Russia.
"Nothing has arrived nor will arrive at the League" as
concerns illegal funding," he said.
"There is no money in Luxembourg, or the Caymans or in
Switzerland. There are no roubles or yen or barrels of oil".
L'Espresso reported that the League had received millions of
euros in funding from Russia.
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