Former House Speaker Fini gets two-year, eight-month term

Conviction regards purchase of Monte Carlo flat

By: ansa.it

Apr 30 2024
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Former House Speaker Fini gets

Former Lower House Speaker and ex-foreign minister Gianfranco Fini was given a jail term of two years, eight months by a Rome court on Tuesday in relation to the purchase of a flat in Monte Carlo.
    In Italy convictions are not considered definitive until the appeals process has been exhausted in the nation's three-tier justice system.
    The 72-year-old former leader of the now-defunct right-wing National Alliance (AN) said he was "not disappointed" after the ruling, while expressing doubts about it.
    "I was not held responsible for money laundering, so evidently the only thing that prevented my acquittal was the authorisation for the sale of the flat, which was clearly not authorised by me," he said.
    "I am leaving (the courtroom) more serene than one might think after seven years on trial.
    "After so much talk, after so much controversy, so many accusations, so much denigration from a political point of view, what I am guilty of? Authorising the sale.
    "It is not clear to me what the offence is".