Prosecutor asks false accounting trial for Santanchè

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 4 - The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office on Thursday requested the committal for trial of Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè and 16 other people for false accounting in the Visibilia case, the group founded by the ruling Brothers of Italy (FdI) senator and from which she divested herself of offices and shares in 2022.
    The others include her companion Dimitri Kunz, her sister Fiorella Garnero and her niece Silvia Garnero, as well as three companies in the investigation.
    In the first instalment of the Visibilia affair, in which Santanchè and two other people, including Kunz, and two companies are accused of aggravated fraud against INPS social security and pensions agency on the lay-off fund during the Covid period, the preliminary hearing has been set for 9 October.
    Santanchè has resisted calls to resign over the cases. (ANSA).