ROME- The head of a government department within the office of the Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, has resigned following yet more insight into illicit funding of a homosexual rent boys' club and practices on his and his department's behalf, officials said Tuesday.

 The office for anti-racial discrimination in the president’s council (l’Unar) is under huge amounts of fire after it emerged that it was funding a secret gayclub, according to an investigative show aired by lene journalists. The office’s director, Francesco Spano, has now resigned after a long meeting at Palazzo Chigi. “His resignation”, said a statement by Palazzo Chigi, “shows the respect he has for his role and the work he has done and will continue to be done at l’Unar.”

 Numerous members of parliament have called for the closure of the office as well. The lene investigative journalists accused l’Unar of financing a ring of homosexuals that would hold meetings that would include male prostitution. Spano, the office’s direction was allegedly a member of the association and therefore guilty of a conflict of interest at the very least. The Anddos association reportedly received 55,000 euros form l’Unar in 2016. 

 A programme that aired on Sunday night, produced by Mediaset and uncovered by lene television journalists, claims that Cabinet Ministers financed “a dark room” to tune of 55,000 euros in which orgies were held.

 The department in question is known as “L’Unar” or the office for anti-racial discrimination within the Department of Equal Opportunities in the Presidential Council. It is a department that aims to promote equal treatment and remove racial, ethnic and sexual discrimination. The department is meant to promote these causes through the campaigns working with foundations and non-profits.

 According to the show’s producer and his production, Filippo Roma, there was a grant worth around 55,000 euros to an association that was engaged in the business of covering up prostitution. The hidden camera’s managed to infiltrate to infiltrate the organised evenings during which sex was openly offered in exchange for a fee. The show also claims to have held a secret interview with a member of Unar department who, if Fillippo Roma wanted, could be in serious trouble. The member in question reportedly pulls out her business card at one point in the interview openly revealing their first and last names in an angry response to Roma’s questioning.

 The revelations make for a terrifying insight into the depths of corruption within Italian politics and the audacity with which they appropriate funds.