In the end, he was the one to leave. Vittorio Sgarbi has resigned as Undersecretary of Culture. In doing so, he thanked the President of the Council Meloni, who 'asked me for nothing'. And weighing heavily is a letter from Antitrust whose provision reads: 'The Undersecretary of State for Culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, has exercised professional activities as an art critic, in matters related to the government office, as specified in the motivation, in favor of public and private entities', in violation of the Frattini Law on conflict of interest.
The Antitrust provision
This is what can be read in the text of the Antitrust provision, following which Sgarbi has submitted his resignation as Undersecretary. Antitrust specifies that the element of the occasional nature of the activities carried out by Sgarbi, highlighted in the defense briefs, is 'completely incompatible with the establishment and maintenance of a stable organization of people and means whose sole purpose is to organize, manage and implement the interventions of Prof. Sgarbi for a fee'.
The incompatible roles
The Authority cites in particular the role in the organization of Sgarbi's participations in events deemed incompatible with the government office, of the two companies Ars and Hestia, 'also from the point of view of the management of the patrimonial relationships' with Sgarbi, recalling that the sole director and partner of Ars is Antonino Ippolito, Sgarbi's historical collaborator and his current chief of staff at the Ministry, while the sole partner and director of Hestia is Sabrina Colle, Sgarbi's partner. 'The principle of exclusive dedication to the care of public interests - the text continues - cannot, in fact, be emptied of content through an indefinite sum of activities which, even where considered individually permitted, as a whole lack the requirements of occasionality and temporariness, resulting in a significant subtraction of time and intellectual resources from the pursuit of the interests underlying the government office'.
'With regard to the activities of offering editorial products to the public carried out through the website www.vittoriosgarbi.it' - finally - Antitrust has ordered 'the closure of the investigative procedure due to the subsequent cessation of the situation of incompatibility'. 'It must be noted - the Authority writes - that, as declared by the Party and verified by the Authority during the investigation, the sales activity in question is no longer in place and the relevant section of the site is no longer online. Therefore, it must be considered that the conduct under examination has ceased'.
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