国产精品99一区二区三_免费中文日韩_国产在线精品一区二区_日本成人手机在线

Italian court confirms 49 mln euros to be seized from governing League party funds

Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-07 03:37:55|Editor: Mu Xuequan
Video PlayerClose

by Alessandra Cardone

ROME, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- An Italian court confirmed on Thursday that some 49 million euros (57 million U.S. dollars) have to be seized from the accounts of the right-wing governing League party.

The verdict was issued by a review panel at the Genoa Courthouse, which confirmed a previous sentence given by judges in Milan and upheld by Italy's highest court.

The sum referred to undue electoral reimbursements the party received in the past, which were embezzled by former representatives of the League between 2008 and 2010.

"This story belongs to the past, and I am relaxed," the current leader of the League and interior minister Matteo Salvini told a press conference in Rome after the verdict.

"If they want to take everything away from us, let them do it...Italians stand by us," Salvini added.

Former League Party chief Umberto Bossi, his son Renzo, ex-treasurer Francesco Belsito, and three external auditors were found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to various prison terms in a trial in July 2017.

At the time, the court also ordered the League to pay back 48.9 million euros of the overall state financing it had received over the years.

The party appealed, but after the sentence was partially overturned, the Court of Cassation confirmed the seizure order in July this year, recommending judicial police search for the requested funds "wherever they might be". That included bank accounts, deposits, and other assets of the League.

So far, Italian authorities have seized some three million euros, and the party is believed to have about five million euros in its accounts, according to Ansa news agency.

Now, with the verdict upheld by the court of review, the prosecution office is expected to request the immediate seizure of all available funds.

League leader Salvini has long maintained that the various rulings against his party were politically motivated. He also stated the League does not have so much money in its accounts.

League deputy chief Giancarlo Giorgetti last week told local media that if the seizure was definitively confirmed, the party "would disappear".

TOP STORIES
EDITOR’S CHOICE
MOST VIEWED
EXPLORE XINHUANET
010020070750000000000000011105091374504761
主站蜘蛛池模板: 泰兴市| 汝州市| 黎平县| 双牌县| 新余市| 钦州市| 萍乡市| 巴彦淖尔市| 泰和县| 无为县| 亚东县| 玉环县| 吉水县| 景洪市| 略阳县| 巴林右旗| 铁岭市| 百色市| 敦煌市| 邢台市| 海门市| 铅山县| 富源县| 道孚县| 咸丰县| 驻马店市| 昌吉市| 新宾| 禄劝| 洛扎县| 苍山县| 东宁县| 抚宁县| 凯里市| 台前县| 商都县| 福泉市| 六盘水市| 马边| 福鼎市| 甘泉县|