Ministers in Italy's technocrat government, which is implementing drastic spending cuts, earn millions of euros a year, newly released documents show.
A website on which the ministers' assets and earnings were voluntarily divulged received so many hits that it temporarily crashed, as Italians rushed to see details of the new Government's startling levels of personal wealth.
Ministers were revealed to own multiple properties, including ski chalets in the Dolomites and apartments in New York.
They zip around in Jaguars, Porsches and Mercedes and - in the case of the Foreign Minister - on a Harley-Davidson motorbike.
Topping the rich list was Paola Severino, the Justice Minister, who earned more than €7 million last year.
