Perugia investigation, also Bonomi (Confindustria) among those intercepted

There is also the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, among the people 'observed' by Pasquale Striano, a judicial police officer and former commander of the Sos group, who made allegedly abusive accesses to the databases used by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office. Among others, former minister Vittorio Colao and Letizia Moratti. Numerous politicians are also on the list, such as Minister Giuseppe Valditara or Michele Vietti.

And the list of names of personalities peeked at through the database of suspicious transaction reports is likely to grow, an affair on which the Perugia public prosecutor's office is only at the beginning of its investigations: about fifteen people have been entered in the register of suspects, including the lieutenant of the Guardia di Finanza Pasquale Striano, alleged author of hundreds of abusive accesses, and Antonio Laudati, former deputy of the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office. And now the case ends up on the bench of the parliamentary enquiry commissions and the Superior Council of the Magistracy.

The prosecutors of Perugia Raffaele Cantone and of the Anti-Mafia Giovanni Melillo themselves asked to be heard by the Presidential Committee of the Csm, the President of the Anti-Mafia Commission and the President of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic. These requests are not accidental. The former is the head of the office in charge of the investigation, while the latter is the current number one of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, for which the two key suspects had served: Pasquale Striano, the financier who is accused of hundreds of abusive accesses to the Suspicious Transaction Reports database, and Antonio Laudati, the former deputy anti-mafia prosecutor, who led the structure that received the so-called 'Sos' (Suspicious Transaction Reports).

At the time of the events, the chief prosecutor of the DNA was Federico Cafiero de Raho, now a member of the Five Star Movement, who in recent months had already categorically denied the existence of an internal dossier centre within the national anti-mafia directorate. In these hours Melillo and Cantone consider it "right and proper", however, to ask for their hearing to be assessed "with the urgency of the case", which they consider "necessary for the confidential evaluations" of the Csm, Copasir and the Anti-Mafia Commission. The latter is already working on the matter and in the next few hours the bureau, chaired by Chiara Colosimo, will meet to assess the two magistrates' request.

The League, according to which the data would be sifted mainly by citizens of the centre-right and in particular politicians and people close to the Carroccio, asks instead the Copasir to investigate the matter 'in detail until complete clarity on the facts, starting from the hearings of the present and past summits of the Guardia di Finanza and the Antimafia. We are facing an attack on the Republic and democracy'. For Forza Italia's group leader in the Senate, Maurizio Gasparri, who also calls for a ruling by the Superior Council of the Judiciary on the facts and calls for an immediate inspection of the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office, this is a scandal worthy of a bicameral.