At the moment there is no ad hoc investigative commission, because we have to “get to the bottom of the matter”, but first we have to let the anti-mafia commission work. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni returns to speak about the matter of the alleged file that the Perugia prosecutor’s office is investigating, confirming the brake on the idea launched by the Keeper of the Seals Carlo Nordio and also shared by a part of its majority, on the side of the League. . And the Antimafia itself, led by the president of the FdI, Chiara Colosimo, does not waste time and lists the names for the next hearings: the parties have asked to hear, among others, Nordio and the Minister of Defense Crosetto, but not the former national anti-mafia prosecutor. mafia member Federico Cafiero De Raho (now a member of the same commission) or former prime minister Matteo Renzi. «I believe that the Anti-Mafia commission is working today, which has investigative powers. I think you have to see where it is successful and then evaluate if something more is needed,” explains Meloni, but “the point is that you have to get to the bottom of it because what is emerging is objectively incredible and embarrassing for a rule of law.”
The deputy prime minister and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, does not relaunch the ad hoc commission but reiterates that “it is the right of all Italians to know if there was a rotten system, who paid and who was paid to spy on others.” “. Meanwhile, Anti-Mafia will also be joined by the leader of the FI group, Maurizio Gasparri, according to whom the commission “must act immediately so as not to waste time. Then the time will come for other commissions but in the meantime that is the place that can operate from the next few hours,” he adds, without ceasing to consider the participation in the commission of “Cafiero De Raho, for whom we see a great conflict of interest, for being “inappropriate”, like a house. However, the Anti-Mafia commission is already working. Today the panel that examined the hearing requests met at the San Macuto Palace. At the moment, only the next meetings of Andrea De Gennaro, general commander of the Guardia di Finanza, are planned; Michele Carbone, director of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (Dia); Enzo Serata, director of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) of the Bank of Italy. But the list also includes Minister Crosetto, author of the complaint that initiated the investigation, and the Guardian of the Seals Nordio. Not from Raho, as has been said, because – as has been explained – there is no precedent for listening to a member of the same commission and they do not want to create one. The bicameral parliament could also hear from Domani editor Carlo De Benedetti and journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi, as well as representatives of the Order of Journalists and the National Federation of the Italian Press. None of the suspects investigated by the Perugia prosecutor’s office, as LaPresse has learned, is on the list of hearing requests, because the commissioners’ will – as leaked – is not to coincide in any way with the investigations. The list includes Giovanni Russo, coordinator of Pasquale Striano’s office at the time of the events and currently head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration.