Turin, 4 May (LaPresse) – "I have been accused of reporting unverified news. Here is what I said: “We are following up on a tip-off received in the last few hours, in which a source told us they had seen Nordio in Uruguay in early March and had seen him at Cipriani’s ranch. We are verifying a lead and are therefore treating it with the benefit of the doubt”. Now, I certainly went a bit over the top, and I take full responsibility for that; however, I did not report unverified news but said ‘we are verifying a report’, which is a slightly different matter.” Sigfrido Ranucci made these remarks during last night’s episode of ‘Report’ broadcast on Rai3, returning to the controversy sparked by his comments during an episode of ‘E’ sempre Cartabianca’, broadcast on Rete4, regarding Minister Carlo Nordio.