Art critic Vittorio Sgarbi said after resigning as culture undersecretary Friday that he had received a letter from the antitrust authority telling him he could not hold a TV conference amid a probe into alleged conflict of interests over payments for private gigs.
"The Antitrust sent a very complex and confusing letter saying that it had accepted two anonymous letters, which the Minister of Culture sent to the Antitrust, in which it was written that I cannot do a conference on (journalist Nicola) Porro's (show) on the Berlusconi channel Retequattro Sgarbi, 71,
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polemicist known for his intemperate and profane outbursts on TV shows, is also the subject of a criminal probe into a allegedly stolen painting.
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