The regional administrative court
(TAR) of Lazio on Sunday rejected art critic Vittorio Sgarbi's
appeal to suspend a January 31 ruling by Italy's antitrust
authority that his private conferences and other lucrative
activities were incompatible with his role as culture
undersecretary in the Meloni government.
It said this was a preliminary move ahead of a final decision on
the matter on March 6.
Sgarbi, 71, a famously volatile polemicist as well as one of
Italy's top art critics and historians, resigned from government
after the ruling.
He is the subject of a separate criminal probe into an allegedly
stolen painting.
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