According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblicain recent months its embassy of Russia at Rome made withdrawals of approximately 4 million euros from her bank accounts. The paper adds that “Ring a bell» to the Bank of Italy, which informed the country’s secret services and the relevant parliamentary committee.
“This move is not justified by the financial sanctionsgiven that the bank accounts of the embassies were not particularly restricted,” writes La Repubblica.
At the same time, he adds that “the possibility that the embassy workers had to be paid in cash is not convincing and that “the most worrying, and perhaps more realistic case, is that it is money related to a more complex strategy, which provides for the collection and channeling information’.
The Italian newspaper also writes that part of this huge amount may have been used “to pay “influencers”, with the aim of supporting the positions of the Kremlin and to influence Italian public opinion” but also that there were also individuals, possibly within the armed forces, who may have revealed – against financing – sensitive information. For example, about new weapons.
Source: News Beast
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