Edoardo Rixi

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Edoardo Rixi
Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 October 2022
Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport
In office 11 June 2018 – 30 May 2019
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 October 2022
In office 23 March 2018 – 12 October 2022
Constituency	Liguria
In office 29 April 2008 – 8 June 2010[1]
Constituency	Liguria
Personal details
Born	(1974-06-08) 8 June 1974 (age 50) Genoa
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Lega Nord (2002–2020) Lega (since 2020)
Spouse	Marzia Vita ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	1
Education	Bocconi University
Alma mater	University of Genoa
Occupation	Politician

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

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).

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

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]