Gianluca Savoini is an Italian politician and journalist, whose name emerged in 2018 in a series of [journalistic](https://espresso.repubblica.it/protagonisti/gianluca_savoini/) inquiries for an alleged involvement in a commercial negotiation between Russian and Italian companies, that led to illicit funding of Italian political parties, in particular the Lega .
Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Savoini approached far-right groups; in particular he began to frequent the Orion group, gathered around its founder, the neo-fascist militant Maurizio Murelli.
During the 1990s, Savoini was not the only member of the Orion group to join the ranks of the Northern League, among others, for example, Mario Borghezio.
Collaborator and consultant for foreign countries first of Umberto Bossi and then of Roberto Maroni, who succeeded to the position of secretary of the Carroccio party, in 2013, Savoini became spokesperson for the newly elected secretary Matteo Salvini. Strengthened by his introduction into Russian power circles, Savoini manages to have [Alexey Komov](https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/07/18/fondi-russi-salvini-nel-2015-lombardia-russia-organizza-incontri-e-promuove-contatti-tra-la-lega-e-le-autorita-russe/5330230/), founding member of the World Congress of Families, intervene at the Lega congress where the appointment as secretary of Salvini will be made official.
Shortly after Matteo Salvini took office at the top of the Northern League, Gianluca Savoini became spokesman for the new secretary and, in 2014, founded the Lombardy Russia Cultural Association.
In the summer of 2019, a series of journalistic inquiries carried out by L’Espresso and the US site BuzzFeed followed, according to which Gianluca Savoini met, together with five other people, Italian and Russian, at the Moscow hotel [Metropol](https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/07/11/fondi-russia-alla-lega-pm-milano-aprono-fascicolo-per-corruzione-internazionale-indagato-savoini/5316630/) for organize a sale of 3 million tons of diesel between the Russian Rosneft and the Italian ENI, through the intermediation of Avangard Oil & Gas, a company owned 1% directly by the russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev and 99% to a company owned by one of its employees.
From this negotiation, worth 1.5 billion dollars, a total of more than 60 million euros would have been obtained, in a kind of capital gain, deriving from a discount of at least 4% on the supply, to be allocated to the campaigns. elections of the League, especially the one for the 2019 European elections.
Thus the “Metropol” or “Moscopoli” case broke out on the scandalous ties between Salvini’s League and Putin’s apparatus.
