ROME: Italian prosecutors questioned an associate of deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini over allegations he tried to broker covert Russian funding for the far-right League party, Italian newspapers reported Monday.But Gianluca Savoini, whose voice was identified on a covert recording of the talks in Moscow, invoked his right to remain silence, according to the reports.The first stories of the October meeting at a Moscow hotel appeared in the Italian press in February.But the publication last week by online news website Buzzfeed of a transcript of the talks — taken from an audio recording — pushed it back centre stage and …read more
Source: theSun
