The Milan prosecutor's office on
Wednesday reiterated a request for a trial for Tourism Minister
Daniela Santanchè and other defendants for false accounting over
allegedly fraudulent COVID benefits involving her former company
Visibilia.
During Wednesday's preliminary hearing, prosecutors Marina
Gravina and Luigi Luzi insisted with their reconstruction and
with the accusations that concern, among others, Santanchè's
partner Dimitri Kunz, her former partner Canio Giovanni Mazzaro,
her sister Fiorella Garnero and companies in the galaxy from
which the Senator, a prominent member of Premier Giorgia
Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, has resigned
her positions.
Santanche has survived a no confidence motion in the Senate
after allegedly failing to pay suppliers and dismissing workers
without giving them redundancy payments, as well as allegedly
improperly receiving
COVID aid, prompting calls for her to quit.
The 63-year-old minister, who sold her stake in Visibilia when
she became minister, has denied all wrongdoing.
She has said she is innocent and has vowed to clear her name if
the cases come to court.
The opposition has called for her to resign and said she must
definitely do so if she is indicted.
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