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Italy: Lawmakers Want Salvini to Explain Alleged Russia Deal

Associated Press

   ROME - Opposition lawmakers in Italy demanded Thursday to have Interior
   Minister Matteo Salvini appear in Parliament about allegations that a
   covert Russian oil sale scheme was devised to fund his pro-Moscow
   League party.

   Democratic Party lawmakers pressed for a parliamentary inquiry
   following another media report with allegations that a former Salvini
   associate proposed an under-the-table arrangement to pump money into
   the right-wing party.

   The alleged proposal for the multimillion-euro plan was made last year
   after the League became a partner in Italy's populist coalition
   government and ahead of May's European Parliament elections.

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