The father of Maria Elena Boschi, a
top aide to former premier Matteo Renzi, was acquitted Wednesday
in a banking fraud case linked to consultancies at the
now-defunct Tuscan bank Banca Etruria.
Prosecutors had requested a one-year term for Pierluigi Boschi,
the former vice president of the bank.
Renzi, former leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
who now head a centrist splinter group, Italia Viva (IV), said
"now it's clear that we were not the monsters".
Maria Elena Boschi served as Minister for Constitutional Reforms
and Relations with Parliament in Renzi's government from
February 2014 to December 2016 and then as cabinet chief for
another PD premier, Paolo Gentiloni, from then until summer
2018.
She is the unofficial number two to Renzi in IV.
Her father has now been acquitted in several bank fraud cases.
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