Italian MPs demand explanation from Matteo Salvini over claims his party sought funding from Russia

Οpposition politicians in Italy called for an explanation from Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister, about reports that his party secretly sought financing from Moscow.
The hard-Right League, led by Mr Salvini, was in talks with Russian businessmen close to the Kremlin to secure funding through a petrolium export deal, according to Espresso, an Italian news magazine.
Under the arrangement, millions of euros’ worth of diesel was to be sold to an Italian company by a Russian firm “close to the Kremlin”, with the profits to be diverted to the League, the weekly claimed.
But the magazine conceded that it did not know whether the deal, allegedly intended to fund the League’s political campaign ahead of the European Parliament elections in May, was ever concluded.
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