TAR KOs Sgarbi appeal agst antitrust incompatibility order

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 25 - The regional administrative court (TAR) of Lazio on Sunday rejected art critic Vittorio Sgarbi's appeal to suspend a January 31 ruling by Italy's antitrust authority that his private conferences and other lucrative activities were incompatible with his role as culture undersecretary in the Meloni government.
    It said this was a preliminary move ahead of a final decision on the matter on March 6.
    Sgarbi, 71, a famously volatile polemicist as well as one of Italy's top art critics and historians, resigned from government after the ruling.
    He is the subject of a separate criminal probe into an allegedly stolen painting. (ANSA).