Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said
Tuesday that he was bemused by the probe in which centre-right
Ligurian Governor Giovanni Toti was put under house arrest.
"'I have the habit of reading case documents, and when I read
the charges against Toti I didn't quite understand," Crosetto
told La7 television.
"Everyone thinks that a person who has been arrested took money
for themselves.
"But when it turns out that he reported what he took for an
election campaign, it becomes difficult to understand how he can
be a corrupt person".
Friuli Venezia Giulia Governor Massimiliano Fedriga, the
president of the Conference of Regions, called for "utmost
caution" when making evaluations of the case.
"We are talking about an investigation, not a conviction," said
Fedriga.
"It is extremely dangerous to use every probe that opens like a
club because it erodes our country's democracy.
"It is right that investigations are done if hypotheses of crime
are found, but they are hypotheses that must be confirmed by a
sentence."
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