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Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte confronts Meloni

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Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte testifies confronts Meloni

The parliamentary Covid‑19 procurement inquiry into Italy’s €1.25 billion purchase of Chinese‑made masks continues. After multiple postponements, the commission heard continued on 6 August 2026, when former prime minister Giuseppe Conte appeared before the commission. Building on 6 August 2026. Conte defended his government’s pandemic actions, cited a Venice tax‑court ruling that upheld the documentation for earlier five‑hour testimony, Conte delivered an anonymously sourced dossier to the €100 million October 2025 contract with Rome prosecutor. The file concerns a 2022 verbale on mask supplies from JC Electronics Italia, a firm based in Colleferro and questioned why led by entrepreneur Dario Bianchi, and questions the payment was made before €100 million settlement the appellate judgment. He government signed with the company in October 2025 to resolve a legal dispute. Conte again described the commission as a “plot of execution”, handed an anonymously received dossier on the 2020 mask contract to the Rome prosecutor, “plotone d’esecuzione” and accused Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of directing political attacks. The hearing lasted more than five hours, during which Conte rejected accusations of misconduct and defended emergency measures such as DPCM decrees and the vaccine rollout. JC Electronics responded that the contract documentation had already been examined by attacks, calling her the courts and that “regista” of the masks were CE‑certified. campaign. Meloni replied on Facebook, stressing social media, asserting that uncovering the truth about the pandemic is a duty to the nation, right of Italians, not a political process. Five Star Movement senators, including Mariolina Castellone weapon, and Carmela Auriemma, voiced full solidarity with Conte, defending defended the commission’s work and accusing the centre‑right of using the crisis for propaganda. Fratelli d’Italia deputy Alice Buonguerrieri work. JC Electronics reiterated earlier court decisions that cleared the state while also questioning contract documentation had already been examined by the timing courts and legality of that the €100 million payment. masks were CE‑certified, denying any new wrongdoing. The probe also examines missing customs dossiers, lack of CE certification for many masks, exchange heightened the broader political clash over pandemic management, public procurement, and the €250 million penalty under scrutiny, use of emergency powers, with further testimonies from senior health researcher Loredana Frasca and former under‑secretary Riccardo Fraccaro scheduled. both leaders accusing each other of politicising the crisis.

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  1. 2026-08-07 08:10 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte confronts Meloni
  2. 2026-08-07 01:48 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte testifies
  3. 2026-08-07 00:40 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte testifies
  4. 2026-08-06 21:04 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte testifies
  5. 2026-08-06 19:04 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe: Conte testifies
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  9. 2026-08-02 16:55 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe faces delay, new allegations
  10. 2026-08-02 14:25 UTC Italian Covid procurement probe faces testimony delay
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