5-Star Movement (M5S) leader
Giuseppe Conte said Thursday that there was a risk insinuations
about Russian funding to political parties could contaminate the
campaign for Italy's September 25 general election.
According to a US intelligence report, Russia has given over
$300 million to foreign parties, officials and politicians in
more than 20 countries since 2014.
Adolfo Urso, the president of the Italian parliament's Copasir
intelligence oversight body, has said that there was no news of
Italy being involved in the US report at the moment.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni and League leader
Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that they have never accepted
money from Moscow.
"I wouldn't like the election campaign to be polluted by these
insinuations and conjectures, which I hope are all false,"
ex-premier Conte told reporters in Bari.
"It is necessary to handle this issue with care, not toss on the
floor of a delicate, complex election campaign".
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