Rome, 5 July (LaPresse) – ‘The government intends to get to the bottom of the case of public funds for cinema. The time has come to put an end to waste, anomalies and irregularities. We are doing so with determination, out of respect for those who work seriously and for the good of Italian cinema, which deserves transparency, quality and responsibility.’ This was stated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a social media post commenting on an excerpt from yesterday's interview with Bruno Vespa, in which she described the ‘Kaufmann case as only the most dramatic and scandalous epilogue of a system linked to tax credits and public support for cinema and audiovisuals.’ ‘Over the years, it has generated real fraud,’ said Meloni, ‘but it has also built a distorted mechanism that allowed hundreds of thousands of euros – if not millions – of citizens' taxes to be used to finance films that ultimately earned only a few tens of thousands of euros.’
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