Probe into alleged MP physiotherapy-expenses fiddle

(ANSA) – Naples, October 18 – A Naples prosecutor has opened an investigation into an alleged expenses fiddle by one or more Italian lawmakers, judicial sources said Friday.

The alleged fraud concerns reimbursements for physiotherapy treatments that allegedly did not take place but were claimed for with false receipts.

A former MP for Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right People of Freedom (PdL) party is among a number of people being probed, the sources said.

Parties from various parts of Italy’s political spectrum have been hit by a series of corruption scandals in recent years.