Edoardo Rixi

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Edoardo Rixi
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Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility
Assumed office
31 October 2022
Children1
Education Bocconi University
Alma mater University of Genoa
OccupationPolitician

Edoardo Rixi (born 8 June 1974, in Genoa) is an Italian politician.

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Early life and education

In 2000, Rixi graduated in economics from the University of Genoa with the thesis:"Dalla crisi degli anni '90 alla moneta unica". In 2014 he attended the Master of Public Administration (SDA Bocconi).

Political career

On 11 June 2018 Edoardo Rixi was appointed Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Conte Cabinet. [2]

Court proceedings

In April 2015 he was investigated for unreasonable public money spending, [3] [4] together with other regional councilors, as part of the survey on "Spese pazze" in the Liguria Region from 2010 to 2012. At the beginning of February 2016 he was sent to trial.

On 30 May 2019 the Court of Genoa sentenced him to three years and five months of imprisonment and the perpetual ban from public offices for the accusation of embezzlement and forgery and € 56,807 was confiscated; the same day Rixi resigned as deputy minister. [5] On 18 March 2021 he was acquitted on appeal because the "fact does not exist". [6] He was definitively acquitted on 15 March 2022. [7]

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References

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