Kremlin Declines To Comment On Allegations Of Moscow Funding Italy's Lega Party

Kremlin Declines to Comment on Allegations of Moscow Funding Italy's Lega Party

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday declined to comment on the Italian media reports of Moscow's financial support for the Italian Lega party.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd February, 2019) Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday declined to comment on the Italian media reports of Moscow's financial support for the Italian Lega party.

L'Espresso weekly claims that on October 18, 2018, when Lega's leader, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, visited Moscow, a meeting between his adviser Gianluca Savoini and unnamed three Russian men took place, during which a potential deal on diesel supplies and on financial support to Lega were discussed. The weekly, however, does not specify to whom the potential supplies of diesel were intended, how it can be the business of a party leader's adviser, and even admits that it could not get either a confirmation or at least information on whether the deal was concluded or not.

"Who is saying [this]? What sources? What are they based on? ... Let's ask the newspaper what they are basing this on, where the information came from, and so on," Peskov told reporters, when asked to comment.