Aggravated State fraud joins the list of suspected crimes allegedly committed by the minister, which already include false accounting and bankruptcy by the high-profile member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party in running the many companies in her Visibilia business galaxy, they said.
The Senate will examine a no-confidence motion against Santanche’ on Wednesday, July 26.
The leftwing populist opposition 5-Star Movement (M5S) presented the motion after she reported to parliament earlier this month over allegations regarding her business activities.
The other main opposition group, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), has said it will back the no-confidence motion.
Santanche’ denies all wrongdoing.
The minister has been facing calls to quit since investigative journalism program Report on Rai 3 reported that businesses linked to her allegedly failed to pay suppliers and dismissed workers without giving them redundancy payments, as well as allegedly improperly receiving COVID aid.
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