Ex Venice mayor Brugnaro indicted for fiddling election expenses

Former centre-right Venice mayor Luigi

Brugnaro was indicted Friday on charges of fiddling his election

expenses.

Brugnaro, 64, who recently ended his term after setting up his

own party Coraggio Italia, has been indicted for alleged

violation of the law on electoral expenses, relating to his 2020

local election campaign.

The trial has been set for September 21.

Also indicted alongside Brugnaro, on various charges of forgery

and illicit financing, are Brugnaro's chief of staff, Morris

Ceron; Walter Bianchi of the Northeast Production and

Development Consortium; and Adriano Giugie, the campaign

expenses representative.

At the center of the investigation is an alleged 'exceeding' of

the electoral spending limit of around €300,000.

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