Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini on Wednesday visited former longtime Silvio
Berlusconi aide Denis Verdini at Sollicciano prison in Florence
after he had his house arrest revoked by a Florence surveillance
court on Tuesday.
Verdini, a former senator, is also the father of Salvini's
partner Francesca.
Salvini is understood to have visited the penitentiary and then
met with Verdini in the interview room.
Verdini was ordered back into prison custody after evading house
arrest at a villa near Florence to attend three dinners in Rome.
From what has been learnt, at the moment the former senator of
He is serving a six-year sentence for the fraudulent bankruptcy
of Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino.
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