Santanchè, distrust goes to the Senate on July 26th - Corriere.it

It will be discussed in the Senate on July 26, at 10 am, lby motion of no confidence against the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanch. The M5 group asked for it. State to announce the news the group leader of the M5s, Stefano Patuanelliwho commented: I hope it is shared as much as possible.

The political case involving Daniela Santanch is born from the journalistic investigation of the TV show Report on Rai3, broadcast on 19 June. The business activities of Ki group (purchased in 2006 by Santanch together with his ex partner Canio Mazzaro, pharmaceutical entrepreneur) and Visibilia. With the investigation by the public prosecutor of Milan the minister under investigation for bankruptcy and false accounting in communications 2016-2020.

The reactions were immediate, complete with a request for resignation by the opposition and tensions within the majority that led to a decision for a confrontation in Parliament. So last July 5, therethe minister showed up in the classroom for a briefing during which he swore he had never received notices of investigation into the accounts of his companies. But after the 40-minute speech, a note released by his department returned to the subject to affirm that the news of the investigation had only been learned from the media: Minister Daniela Santanch learns, from press releases released today - we learn from note - which would refer to information received from internal sources by the Milan public prosecutor's office, which would appear to be registered in the register of suspects (although this did not appear from the certificate extracted at the time in December 2022). The note released by his ministry continues: From the press releases it would appear that this information would have been made available to the media, following the de-classification of the related file, de-classification which took place after the statutory period of three months from the start of the investigation .

In the past few hours, the minister has arrived in Rome for the usual annual Confagricoltura conference and upon her arrival she was immediately questioned by journalists about the investigation that sees her involved in the management of two companies. The founder of Visibilia and member of the Ki group then once again rejected the accusations made against her from the stage of the conference, raising the bar. I'm calm, I'll get rich with lawsuits, said the minister, adding that she doesn't think at all of taking a step back, but that she will go forward anyway.

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