Former UniCredit CEO Federico
Ghizzoni has said he will tell parliament everything if summoned
by a commission of inquiry on the woes of Italy's banking sector
about reports Cabinet Secretary Maria Elena Boschi asked him to
buy a troubled Tuscan bank her father was briefly a vice
president of.
"If I am called, I will speak to the commission of inquiry -
in parliament, not to newspapers," Ghizzoni told Monday's
edition of La Repubblica.
"Obviously, I will respond to all the questions I am asked".
There have been opposition calls for Boschi to quit after
former Corriere della Sera editor Ferruccio de Bortoli reported
in a new book that then-reform minister Boschi spoke to Ghizzoni
about the possibility of buying Banca Etruria in 2015.
Boschi has denied this.
Ex-premier Matteo Renzi, the leader of the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD), said Sunday that Boschi had shown no
favouritism.
"De Bortoli did a wonderful marketing operation to launch his
book," Renzi said.
"Let's have the commission of inquiry. I want the truth".
The Tuscan bank was one of four lenders that went to the wall
in 2015, leaving many savers with worthless bonds.
One Etruria former bond holder, Luigino D'Angelo, killed
himself after losing his life savings.
The other banks were Banca Marche, CariChieti and CariFe.
They have all since been turned into 'good banks' and taken
over big bigger lenders.
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