A few "clients" of an alleged
snooping gang that harvested secret data from sensitive national
databases to compile dossiers on commission were "aware" that
the "investigative activities they requested" were illegal and
could help members of the hacking group flee to "avoid
repercussion", Carabinieri police of Varese's investigative unit
wrote in court papers published on Wednesday.
In the papers dating back to last June, Carabinieri
investigators said hacker Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, one of the
alleged ringleaders who is under house arrest, used to fly with
a private Swiss carrier.
Investigations carried out in cooperation with Europol found
that, although no private flights were monitored over the last
period, Calamucci had requested information at least once on a
flight between London and Rome in March 2022.
Speaking about a "flight risk", investigators also included in
the court papers a wiretap from February 2023 in which Calamucci
commented "data included in Beyond", the gang's platform,
"regarding fugitive Accarino Salvatore", claiming that he was in
hiding thanks to the gang.
The probe into illegal hacking and snooping on personal police
and interior ministry files is believed to involve more than
800,000 victims, according to investigative sources.
The gang allegedly targeted mainly business figures but also
high-ranking politicians, athletes and showbusiness
personalities, police have said.
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