"I believe there is a need to restore the truth about the facts that have been said in this phase, some reported in a generic way having not known the documents, and to intervene to protect a sacred institution such as the national prosecutor's office".
Thus the Perugia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone in the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, heard regarding the investigation into the alleged dossiers.
"I don't deal with soap bubbles. And
whoever talks about soap bubbles will respond in the right places
. There is a limit to everything, if you don't know the documents you can't express a judgement", said Cantone, according to whom "there it is the need for a series of tools such as judicial telematic infrastructures and I would like to remember this at a time in which we are moving towards the telematic trial with great difficulty".
The Suspicious Transaction Report (SOS) market has not stopped at all
.
We have sensational proof: during the first leak a reference came out to an SOS regarding an entrepreneur who would have had dealings with the Minister of Defense, that SOS had not been seen by Striano.
There was someone who continued to sell the SOS under the counter.
This investigation has been forwarded to the Rome prosecutor's office" highlighted Cantone.
The accesses are more than 800. From January 1, 2019 to November 24, 2022, Striano consulted 4,124 SOSs within the Siva database, a disproportionate number.
Typed 171 analysis sheets and 6 in-depth sheets followed by typing the name 1531 natural persons 74 legal persons.
He searched for 1,123 people on the Serpico database, but there could be as many as 3,000 searches, I'm talking about people.
He carried out 1,947 searches on the Sdi database.
We have over 10 thousand accesses and the number is destined to grow significantly
", remarked Cantone.
"Striano presented a sort of diary of all the practices he had carried out and we also acquired others, including that on the
League's funds
. The activity on the League's funds is one of the objects of future in-depth analysis", stated Cantone in response to those who asked him during the hearing to go into the merits of the dossier on the League.
"
We know that Striano operated in a pool
, we have not at the moment made any further investigations into the fact that they operated with Striano, he was the coordinator. There were other accesses made to the SOS during this phase. We continue to have abusive access to other databases", continued the prosecutor of Perugia.
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"The fact that the press commissioned information activities from a judicial police officer is an investigative hypothesis on which we hope to be proven wrong
. There have been cases in which we considered it evident that there had been a commission to access the databases ", Cantone said again.
"We analyzed the names and subjects exposed in the media, in that long list of names a total of 165 accesses concerned VIPs and are the subjects of the indictment", she added.
"
This is the second leak of information in this investigation
. But we still haven't understood who and how this news came out, damaging the investigation", continued Cantone.
The prosecutor further explained that he had "spoken to the Minister of Defense twice, who I believe should be thanked".
"The function of the prosecutor is to identify the existence of crimes, they don't deal with phenomena. There are facts of significant gravity which everyone deals with within their competence", he added.
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Cantone: 'The Gravina affair?
There were contacts with individuals from Lazio
Regarding the matter of the pre-investigative operations of Striano and Laudati on Gravina "there have been a series of contacts with individuals from Lazio, but until proof is found there is no responsibility. We listened to Claudio Lotito in Perugia as a person informed on the facts , then we decided to send the documents to the Rome prosecutor's office".
Thus the Perugia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone in the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, heard regarding the investigation into the alleged dossiers.
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The file perhaps in Milan or Florence.
Cantone: 'There were contacts with individuals from Lazio'
Lega: the dossier on party funds is an attack on democracy
"A dossier on the financing of the League ended up in the drawers of the DNA - which also had no competence - and was not sent to any district prosecutor's office. Why was that information collected and kept? In the midst of the spy scandal, the mystery of this dossier it is yet another disturbing piece of news, on which parliamentarian Gianluca Cantalamessa asked Giovanni Melillo (yesterday) and Raffaele Cantone (today) for explanations in the Anti-Mafia Commission".
Thus the League in a statement.
"For years the League has been subjected to a defamatory campaign which is then dismantled in court after years of mud and ruined lives: the spy scandal confirms that it is a real attack on democracy. We will do everything to get to the bottom of it."
Borghi (Lega): area direction Pd and De Benedetti
"Today at Copasir, of which I am a member, there will be two important hearings, of the prosecutor of Perugia, Raffaele Cantone, and of the national anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Melillo".
This was stated by Lega senator and member of Copasir Claudio Borghi to Affaritaliani.it.
"In trying to uncover the malfeasance - underlines Borghi - meanwhile, false dossiers were built on suspicious transactions that are absolutely not a crime. From what I understand, my data was spied on in August 2022, therefore exactly before the political elections. The question what everyone is doing, who is behind it? The spotlight of these obsessive operations is on figures in particular from the Center Right or Renzi and Renzians, therefore leaving the Democratic Party. And if we think that the newspaper which seems to be the vehicle of these dossiers, Il Domani is owned by De Benedetti, everything suggests that there is a political direction behind it around the PD area. I don't expect direct involvement of the party, it would be even more serious, but it is a fact that these operations seem aimed at hit the political opponents of the Democratic Party. On the other hand, let's not forget that De Benedetti is known as the number one card of the Democratic Party".
Orlando: an idiot who thinks Pd is connected
Orlando, an idiot who thinks the Pd is connected
"Anyone who thinks the Pd is connected to this affair is simply an idiot. Among those spied on "there are also exponents who are not from the centre-right". Thus Andrea Orlando, Pd deputy and member of the Anti-Mafia Commission at the end of the hearing of the Perugia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone. For Orlando, "who are those who asked for this information of such copious dimensions is the fundamental question we must ask ourselves.
The question arises not of the controversy between the centre-right and centre-left but of the vulnerability of our country to the possibility of internal and external interference - he underlines -.
Greater unity of political forces would be ripe.
Evidently we are not always able to give this proof of maturity."
Serracchiani: schizophrenic majority
"As stated by prosecutor Cantone during the anti-mafia hearing, the acquisition of Striano's cell phone was a fundamental moment for the investigation. We underline the schizophrenia of the majority and of the government which, on the one hand, ask to shed light on this scandalous dossier and, on the other hand, they present and support a rule that will complicate this and many other ongoing investigations by slowing down the activity of the prosecutor's offices".
Thus, the head of justice of the Democratic Party, the deputy Debora Serracchiani, intervened in the anti-mafia commission regarding the legislative changes on the methods of seizure of smartphones and PCs.
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