A senior member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Santanchè said she was not being probed on Wednesday when she responded in the Senate to allegations about her business activities that had been reported in the media.
The sources said Santanchè has been under investigation since October, along with five other people who had roles in the company, including her sister Fiorella Garnero and her partner Dimitri Kuntz D’Asburgo, the former president of Visibilia Editore.
Santanchè has been facing calls from opposition parties to quit since Rai investigative journalism show Report ran a story with allegations that businesses linked to her allegedly failed to pay suppliers and allegedly dismissed workers without giving them the redundancy payments that were due to them.
Her businesses have also been accused of improperly receiving COVID aid.
The opposition 5-Star Movement (M5S) presented a motion of no confidence in Santanchè after her report to the Senate.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) has said it will back the motion.
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