No state governed by the rule of law
can tolerate illegal dossier gathering as has been the case in
Italy on several recent occasions, Premier Giorgia Meloni says
in journalist Bruno Vespa's new book and amid a huge new
Milanese snooping scandal involving mainly the business world
and after a previous case in which she herself was targeted.
"The investigations say that the dossier on me began at the end
of the Draghi government when it was clear that I could have
gone to government," she says.
"On the issue of the dossiers, I expect the judiciary to get to
the bottom of it, because, in the best case scenario, at the
basis of this work there was a system of blackmail and
extortion, but in the worst case scenario we are faced with the
crime of subversion. No rule of law can tolerate something like
this".
The State attorney's office in the Puglia city of Bari is
investigating a former employee of Intesa Sanpaolo bank who
allegedly "illicitly" accessed nearly 7,000 times the bank
accounts of VIP clients including Meloni, her former partner,
journalist Andrea Giambruno, Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa,
Meloni's sister Arianna, head of the secretariat of her
rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Defence Minister Guido
Crosetto, Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè ,National
Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, members of the military,
and top footballers and entertainment figures.
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