Garlasco

Poggi murder, former prosecutor Venditti investigated in Brescia for corruption in Sempio case. 70-day extension for evidentiary accident

Former prosecutor Mario Venditti is under investigation for corruption in the 2007 Garlasco murder investigation. Searches also involved the family of a suspect. For the pems, the investigation at the time presented anomalies. The magistrate was allegedly bribed to exonerate Andrea Sempio

26 September 2025

L'ex procuratore di Pavia Mario Venditti in una immagine di archivio. I Carabinieri e i finanzieri all'opera da stamani a Garlasco nelle abitazioni della famiglia Sempio sono coordinati dalla Procura della Repubblica di Brescia, che ha emesso i provvedimenti nell'ambito di un fascicolo che vede indagato l'ex procuratore. Pavia, 26 settembre 2025. ANSA / PAOLO TORRES

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The gip of Pavia Daniela Garlaschelli has granted an extension of 70 days for the evidentiary investigation ordered in the new investigation into the Garlasco murder. The judge's own experts, geneticist Denise Albani and dactyloscopic expert Domenico Marchigiani, had asked for more time for the investigation. The decision comes at the end of this morning's hearing on 26 September, and the parties have been reconvened for 18 December.

Meanwhile, there is a breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi in Garlasco (Pavia) on 13 August 2007. The house searches began early in the morning and the former deputy prosecutor of Pavia, Mario Venditti, was entered by the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office in the register of suspects for corruption in judicial acts in the Garlasco investigation.

According to prosecutor Claudia Moregola and chief prosecutor Francesco Prete, the magistrate was allegedly bribed to exonerate Andrea Sempio. Of this morning's searches (nine people were targeted by the measure), some involved the homes of Venditti, who twice filed Sempio. Other searches concerned the homes of Sempio's parents and uncles. The former prosecutor, as reconstructed by Ansa, was allegedly 'offered or in any case hypothesised the payment of a sum of money'.

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According to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Brescia, 'the investigations conducted in 2017 against Andrea Sempio were characterised by a number of anomalies, including the omission by the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the transmission of some relevant passages of the environmental interceptions'.

"Accusatory hypothesis so serious..."

"The accusation is so serious that I believe it should not be commented on by a mere lawyer. The magistrates will prove the validity of these investigations, but the gravity of the contested facts is unprecedented'. Thus the lawyer Antonio De Rensis, defender of Alberto Stasi, on the new investigation into the Garlasco case involving former prosecutor Mario Venditti. "The investigation that brought Stasi to prison was riddled with errors and horrors, like erasing an alibi. Today's Pavia investigation and that of Brescia are studded with in-depth investigations. Here one adds, not takes away. And when you add you are usually less wrong'.

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"Figures too small for..."

"They are calm and they are cooperating, they are looking at PCs and mobile phones and taking minutes". This is what Andrea Sempio's lawyer, Massimo Lovati, said as he entered the small villa in Garlasco where the Sempio family, involved in an investigation into alleged corruption in judicial acts involving the former prosecutor of Pavia, Mario Venditti, lives. "Honestly, the figures mentioned in the memo that was allegedly found - 20 or 30 thousand euro - seem to me too small a base for a corrupt hypothesis of such a professional". However, the figures identified in the Gico investigations of the gdf on some withdrawals are higher.

The Decree

The suspicion is that Venditti 'received an undue sum of money, in the order of 20 to 30 thousand euro,' the decree reads, 'in order to favour Andrea Sempio, within the framework of the criminal proceedings' in which he was responsible for the death of his friend Marco Poggi's sister, murdered on 13 August 2007.

The handwritten note, according to the reconstruction of the prosecutors led by Francesco Prete that led to this morning's Gdf raid, dates back to early February 2017, before Andrea Sempio received the summons for interrogation, of which, he is said to have known in advance the 'questions that would be put to him'.

According to the Brescia prosecutors, from the environmental intercepts in the car after the interrogation on that 10 February 2017, Andrea Sempio and his father Giuseppe allegedly confronted each other on the interrogation stating that they had ''canned'' the answer regarding the receipt that would provide the alibi and on the ''feeling'' they would have had about the investigators, defined by father and son in that interception as ''from ours'' after the questions on the location of Sempio's mobile phone.

The investigation is said to have started from a note with the words 'Venditti gip archivia x 20.30 Euro', seized last May at the home of Andrea Sempio's parents, and from their bank movements at the time of the first investigation by the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office, cross-referenced with those of their uncles, cash withdrawals, and wiretaps from which it would emerge the 'need 'to pay those gentlemen there' in untraceable ways'. Meanwhile, the search of the Sempio family home in Garlasco has ended. Carabinieri and financiers, from Milan and Pavia, delegated in the search decree, acquired various material that was taken away inside boxes.

Defence Andrea Sempio: 'It was precisely legal fees that were expected'

"For me, that was an estimate of legal fees". This was explained by Massimo Lovati, one of the defenders of Andrea Sempio, interpreting the note seized at his client's home with the inscription 'Venditti gip archivia x 20.30 Euro'.