Italian Foreign Minister in shaky position after albanian TV airs photos of him with fixer
Top Channel, the Albanian major TV aired, two days ago, photos of Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini in the company of Albanian Former Minister Ilir Meta and the alleged political and financial fixer, extortionist and money launderer Valter Lavitola. This photos came out after Frattini had previously denied ever having met Lavitola when the Italian newspaper La Repubblica had published, a day earlier, a phone conversation of Lavitola with the secretary of the Foreign Ministry, where he insisted meeting the Albanian Minister Ilir Meta in an official meting with his Italian counterpart.
After the new developments in the scandal, Frattini made another statement saying that “at that time no one knew or imagined that Lavitola was involved in illicit activities. He was one of many acquaintances of the Albanian minister”
The opposition reacted furiously to the new developments and the reactions of the Foreign Minister. They asked Frattini to resign immediately because of his involvement with Lavitola’s activity and lying to italian people. The photos published by the Albanian TV seem to have put the Italian foreign minister in big trouble and his future as the head of Farnesina, as the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is commonly called, is quite shaky now.
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