Audio Reveals How Russia Tried to Bankroll Italian Race

[DonViejo]

July 10, 2019 at 6:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

BuzzFeed News “has obtained an explosive audio recording of the Metropol meeting in which a close aide of Europe’s most powerful far-right leader — Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini — and the other five men can be heard negotiating the terms of a deal to covertly channel tens of millions of dollars of Russian oil money to Salvini’s Lega party.”

“The recording reveals the elaborate lengths the two sides were willing to go to conceal the fact that the true beneficiary of the deal would be Salvini’s party — a breach of Italian electoral law, which bans political parties from accepting large foreign donations — despite the comfort with which he and Europe’s other far-right leaders publicly parade their pro-Kremlin political sympathies.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/10/audio-reveals-how-russia-tried-to-bankroll-italian-race/

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Salvini will make sure no one is prosecuted for this

He's shameless.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Aaaaaaand I'm guessing nothing will come of this. As usual. "Nothing to see here.....". nt

[dalton99a]

3. It is Putin's goal to destroy Western democracies from within.