Prosecutors ask Santanchè trial for false accounting

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 30 - The Milan prosecutor's office on Wednesday reiterated a request for a trial for Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè and other defendants for false accounting over allegedly fraudulent COVID benefits involving her former company Visibilia.
    During Wednesday's preliminary hearing, prosecutors Marina Gravina and Luigi Luzi insisted with their reconstruction and with the accusations that concern, among others, Santanchè's partner Dimitri Kunz, her former partner Canio Giovanni Mazzaro, her sister Fiorella Garnero and companies in the galaxy from which the Senator, a prominent member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, has resigned her positions.
    Santanche has survived a no confidence motion in the Senate after allegedly failing to pay suppliers and dismissing workers without giving them redundancy payments, as well as allegedly improperly receiving COVID aid, prompting calls for her to quit.
    The 63-year-old minister, who sold her stake in Visibilia when she became minister, has denied all wrongdoing.
    She has said she is innocent and has vowed to clear her name if the cases come to court.
    The opposition has called for her to resign and said she must definitely do so if she is indicted. (ANSA).