Italian far-right leader Salvini's media guru quits amid drug inquiry


FILE PHOTO: Luca Morisi, social media guru for Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini, speaks at a conference in Turin, northern Italy on October 6, 2018. REUTERS/Alberto Cabodi/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - The social media guru for Italy's Matteo Salvini said on Monday he had quit his post, key to building the far-right leader's popularity, following media reports that he was under a narcotics investigation.

Luca Morisi, 48, widely considered to have had a crucial role in cultivating Salvini's "man of the people" image, denied committing any crime but said "the personal matter that concerns me represents a serious fall as a man".

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