In February, Italian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said that the country’s central bank and Consob, the country’s stock market regulator, should be “reduced to zero” and that “fraudsters” who brought losses to Italian savers should “end up in prison for a long time”.
Italy’s coalition government of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (5SM) and the Lega Party is considering introducing several new laws to challenge the Italian Central Bank’s control of the country’s gold reserves, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.
In February, Italian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini claimed that “if you are here with your current account in the red, it’s because the people who were supposed to control things didn’t do so”.