Dossier, Crosetto: suspicion of secret services. Other ministers spied on

There is a very significant report in those 10,000 pages of documents sent to the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission by the Perugia Public Prosecutor's Office on the alleged dossier orchestrated by Lieutenant Pasquale Striano and former DNA prosecutor Antonio Laudati. It is the record of the statements made spontaneously by Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, after ambiguous news leaked in some newspapers about a property of his (which later turned out to be of no investigative interest).

According to the minister, the hand of the secret services could be behind these fabricated reconstructions, without excluding the possibility of foreign secret services.

According to the documents, Minister Crosetto made spontaneous statements on 22 January 2024 to the Perugia prosecutors. In particular, 'he also reported to the investigators that he had represented his perplexities on the possible origin of the information from within the same security apparatus to the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Alfredo Mantovano, and that he had then also directly conferred with the President of the Council of Ministers', Giorgia Meloni.

Crosetto added that he had expressed 'his perplexities also to the director of the Aise (the external secret service, ed.), General Caravalli, and that he had asked the director of the Dis, Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, to carry out investigations on the matter'. Finally, the minister 'stated that he assumed that the checks requested by him had been carried out but that he did not know the outcome'.

On this point, the Perugia prosecutors carried out checks. The result is that after having questioned Prime Minister Meloni, through Undersecretary Mantovano, the involvement of internal intelligence bodies was excluded.