now let Copasir-Corriere.it intervene

Copasir, Order of Journalists, judiciary. The deputy secretary of the League, Andrea Crippa, calls for action at all levels against the “trappolone” at the center of the investigation that has been on the front page of the newspaper for several days
The truth
: what would have been concocted, among others, by the lawyer Gianluca Meranda, one of the participants in the dinner of 18 October 2018 at the Metropol hotel in Moscow to negotiate the (never materialized) purchase of petroleum products. The judicial inquiry, closed on April 27, assumed that a percentage of the purchase price was destined for the League’s coffers. But
The truth
goes so far as to reconstruct the deliberate intention of Meranda and of the journalist at the time
Expressed
John Titian to frame Salvini’s party. In addition to confirming the presence among the diners at the Metropol dinner of Andrey Yuryevich Kharchenko, a member of the Russian secret service FSB.

And yesterday Matteo Salvini himself spoke for the first time: “A hoax. A
alone, as they say in Rome. He is sorry that for years a mix of left-leaning judiciary, politics and journalism has tarnished not Matteo Salvini and the Lega but all of Italy on nothing ». The Northern League leader’s hope is that “some judges will open an eye and an investigation and I hope that journalists and politicians who appear to have been accomplices in this huge staging pay for the mistake». According to his deputy, Andrea Crippa, «the anti-Lega machination at the Metropol hotel to launch an unworthy mud campaign is enriched with new details, with the presence of Freemasonry and left-wing exponents including a former PD parliamentarian. The silence of the left and its newspapers is indecent: years of mud, slander, insinuations against one of the main Italian parties on the eve of the vote». The reference to the Pd parliamentarian is for the former deputy dem Khalid Chaouki, who knew Meranda well.

In short, according to a genuine Salvinian, it is «a breath of fresh air which breaks the narrative of recent years and which has put the League in an equivocal light”. The Northern League also seem interested in a possible role for the Italian intelligence services. Deputy Claudio Borghi says so: “At Copasir, of which I am a member, we will listen to Alfredo Mantovano, who has the proxy for 007 from the premier, and I will ask him if our Services know anything about this whole Metropol story”. Because, years later, «we now discover that at the famous meeting of 18 October 2018 there was at least one officer of Moscow’s “spies”. Curious, the plot could be turned upside down». In the sense that “a trap built specifically to cut off the Carroccio road would have emerged, even with the participation of segments of the Russian services”.

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