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The Court of Auditors opens an investigation into Bussetti's travels

October 29, 2019

ROME – After the internal investigation of the Ministry of Education, also the investigation of the Court of Auditors. The Lazio prosecutor opened a file on the ghost missions of Marco Bussetti, the Northern League who in the 14 months he spent driving the Ministry of Education collected 25.456,24 euros of expenses for his business trips. A long series of trips that Republic analyzed in detail: out of 133 transfers, 80 are without justification. Moreover, two thirds are to Lombardy, Bussetti's region of residence, now back to direct the Milan school office.

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Airplanes and weekend at the beach. The ghost missions of former minister Bussetti

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The regional prosecutor Andrea Lupi entrusted the file to his deputy Massimiliano Minerva. A non-random choice: after dealing with the Mafia Capital and the building occupied in Rome by CasaPound, the magistrate set to work on a story similar to that of the former minister. In the viewfinder of the accounting pm, in fact, there are the reimbursements required for travel and transfers by Gianni Lemmetti, councilor for the budget of the junta Rays accustomed to shuttling between the capital and his Tuscany at the expense of the Capitol. Stories that look alike.
Marco Bussetti's, at least for now, is full of "I don't remember" and "if I was wrong, I did it in good faith". At the Iene, leaving his home in Gallarate, he added that he was ready to "respond in the appropriate forums" and that "the transfers were all endorsed by the internal offices". And it is precisely at the door of the ministry leaders that the Court of Auditors will knock to acquire all the documents on the travels of the former holder of Public Education.There are many missions to justify, such as the one that on 21 June last year took Bussetti to the Côte d'Azur for a long weekend while at Palazzo Chigi one of the councils of the ministers of the pentale government took place. To request the intervention of the Court of Auditors was Ubaldo Pagano, deputy of the Pd: "Among those transfers there are also the trip and the reimbursement requested by the former minister to participate in the birthday of Matteo Salvini: 440.95 euros". Taxpayers' money on which the double analysis of the offices of the department of Viale Trastevere and of the accounting pm will shed light.

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