Domenico Lucano, under house arrest after being arrested last October, was told by an investigating magistrate to turn up for a 11 June hearing in Locri in the south of the country.
Mr Lucano made a name for himself over the past two decades for welcoming migrants to his village of Riace, to counter a gradual decline of inhabitants and workers. German director Wim Wenders made a documentary in 2010 featuring the leftist mayor and Riace's refugees.Prosecutors allege he organised sham marriages and failed to put to tender a garbage collection contract that went to a migrant-linked cooperative.
Since last year Italy has been governed by a populist coalition whose most powerful faction is the right-wing League led by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
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