Hacker investigation: dossier on La Russa and his son Geronimo. Barletta (Sea) and Pazzali (Fondazione Fiera Milano) self-sign.

Copasir has reportedly requested the documents of the Milan investigation into the dossiers, subject to the secrecy of the investigation. Alleged acquisitions of intelligence documents have emerged from the papers circulated so far and the group of suspects would enjoy, the order reads, 'high-level support', including 'that of the secret services, including foreign ones'. The Committee thus wants to see clearly for the profiles concerning the involvement of the 007, as it did in the past with the Perugia investigation linked to access to the databases of financier Pasquale Striano.

A server in Lithuania has been seized in the investigation by the Milan Dda, which focuses on a network of alleged 'spies' who plundered and stole confidential information from strategic national databases, such as the Sdi. The seizure ordered by Public Prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi, who, together with Deputy Prosecutor Alessandra Dolci and Prosecutor Marcello Viola, is coordinating the investigation delegated to the Varese Carabinieri, comes after last Friday's arrests, including that of former super-cop Carmine Gallo. The Public Prosecutor's Office is also evaluating a rogatory in England, where there was a sort of hacker station led by a woman.

There are also the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and his son Geronimo among the people caught in the crosshairs of the network of alleged spies led by super-cop Gallo Enrico Pazzali, the president of the Fiera Foundation under investigation and owner of Equalize, the company used for dossier processing. An interception from May 2023 emerges from the investigation files, in which Pazzali asks his people to give him a report on the second highest office of state: "Ignazio La Russa!", "eighteen July. exactly, he lives in..." "And put another one if there is... eh... what "s the other son "s name? Eh... Geronimo." "I have nothing to hide, what do they have to spy on?" the Senate President explained in an interview with Corriere della sera. Of this affair La Russa feels 'astonished rather than alarmed'. And he is 'disgusted that once again my sons, Geronimo and Leonardo, will have to pay for the 'guilt' of being called La Russa if it turns out to be confirmed that they too have been spied on'.

Alleged dossiers on Russian citizens also crop up in the investigation documents. The hacker of the group Samuele Calamucci, intercepted, speaks of a 'report' on a 'famous Russian oligarch' and in other passages, the prosecutors write that they have tried to ascertain the identity of the Russian and the only element is 'an affair involving Russian-Kazakh citizens (Victor Kharitonin and Alexandrovich Toporov)' and 'the construction of a hotel in Cortina d'Ampezzo and the management of several luxury resorts'. Unauthorised access, then, allegedly concerned Vladimir Tsyganov and Oxana Bondarenko, active in the fashion industry.

Among the personalities on file is also Matteo Renzi (video), leader senator of Italia viva and former premier. "That goes to Matteo Renzi": the former super-cop Gallo is "shocked" by the research carried out by Enrico Pazzali. In the conversation, Gallo recalls that an alert is triggered if the Sdi asks about 'subjects in view'. But Nunzio Calamucci explains that the hitch has been overcome: 'My guys are the ones who did the infrastructure and do the maintenance! That's the trick'.

'What has happened and is happening is unacceptable. There must be no Big Brother controlling private life, there are already the laws of the Republic, there are the police, there is the judiciary'. This was said by Antonio Tajani, deputy prime minister and foreign minister.

"Since I raised the alarm on the Dossier case (i.e. on the powers entrusted by the State for security and justice and used by some, many, for illicit, illegal and illegitimate purposes) a Pandora's box has opened. First Cantone's investigation, which stemmed from my complaint, then the Bari case on access to bank accounts of well-known people, and today this huge Milanese hacking and dossier scandal. At the beginning, but still in these days, many were ironising and trying to belittle the 'alarms of Crosetto' or the 'conspiracies evoked by Crosetto'. Now many are understanding and admitting, most are silent and those who continue to belittle are evidently doing so in self-protection. I have not spoken any more on this subject, but today I want to say one thing: the abuse is not over, as today's Milanese enquiry shows, but continues undaunted'. Thus on X the Defence Minister, Guido Crosetto, who raises the issue and announces that the government is taking the right countermeasures. "It is necessary, and the government is moving in this direction, to make it impossible to use databases for purposes other than those authorised by law. It is necessary to punish,' Crosetto emphasises, 'anyone who has abused them so far, whether a public or private employee. But we must also punish those who have used this information and those who have commissioned it'. But that's not all for the Defence Minister: "The most important thing, however, would be to know whether there is a red thread linking, perhaps in the unawareness of the minor actors, all these, and many others, information gathering, illegitimate intrusions, pursuits, stalking, films, photographs, recordings, unauthorised and not justified by anything legal". And Crosetto concludes by emphasising 'that the dimensions now reached by the phenomena that are emerging, which I repeat for me are only the tip of the iceberg of a widespread malpractice, should also lead Parliament to reflect on how this issue, which can seriously undermine democratic coexistence and influence its proper conduct, should be addressed, regulated and investigated. Many, too many, have enjoyed it over the years'.

According to the Dda of Milan, the companies traceable to the hacker group, which allegedly fabricated dossiers using secret data and information, would have collected a total of more than EUR 3.1 million in 'illicit profits', of which more than EUR 2.3 million was made by Equalize srl alone. This is what the prosecutor of the Dda of Milan, Francesco De Tommasi, wrote in the acts in the investigation by the Carabinieri of the Nucleo Investigativo.

"It is no exaggeration to say that these are subjects that represent a danger to the democracy of this country". This was written by the Milan public prosecutor, Francesco De Tommasi, in the acts of the investigation into the group that manufactured dossiers. The public prosecutor speaks of 'extremely dangerous subjects because, through abusive dossier-making activities' with 'the creation of real and proper prohibited parallel databases and with the indiscriminate circulation of sensitive, confidential and secret information, they are able to 'hold' citizens and institutions in their grip' and 'condition' 'entrepreneurial dynamics and public procedures, including judicial ones'.

The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, which, together with the DNA, is investigating the case of national strategic databases 'hacked' by a 'group' that manufactured dossiers, will also carry out in-depth investigations into the alleged sale of data and sensitive information abroad, to check whether they ended up in other countries. This is one of the topics of the investigations that are going on after the precautionary measures executed two days ago. Investigations that will also involve computer consultations, ordered by the prosecutors, on the devices and PCs seized from the arrested and other suspects.

A 'circumstance of a certain gravity', writes the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office in the documents of the enquiry into the dossiers, is the 'presence' in an Usb key of Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, the hacker arrested, "of data that apparently, at a first analysis, appear classified", such as a document "formally traceable to Aise", the Italian secret service for foreign countries, classified as "confidential" and dating back to 2008-2009 on the "global Jihad networks". Carabinieri were able to extract some files remotely, in 2023, while Calamucci had the USB connected to his PC and many were 'traceable' to a former Carabiniere under investigation.

In the meantime, the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi (video), has given a mandate to the Chief of Police, Vittorio Pisani, to acquire from the judicial authority the acts of investigation useful to start verifications 'on hypothesized abusive accesses to the Ministry's data banks or on the illicit use of the same'. On this front, moreover, it is added, 'a commission of specialists already previously set up by the minister is working at the Viminale also to define any further measures and procedures to protect the inter-force IT structures'.

"The investigations say that the dossier on me started as early as the end of the Draghi government when it was understood that I could go into government. On the dossier affair, I expect the judiciary to get to the bottom of it because, at best, there was a system of blackmail and extortion behind it, but at worst we are facing the crime of subversion. No rule of law can tolerate such a thing'.

This is how the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, returns to the subject of dossiers in Bruno Vespa's new book to be published on 30 October, entitled 'Hitler and Mussolini. The fatal idyll that shook Europe and the central role of Italy in the new Europe'.