Money and other benefits in exchange for information and favors coming directly from the prosecutor's office and police headquarters. These are the charges against the eight people arrested yesterday in Rome, and one placed under interdiction, as part of an operation involving seven police officers and a female official from Piazzale Clodio. At the center of the investigation is entrepreneur Carlo D'Aguano, who has long been under scrutiny by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate for a series of activities related to gaming halls and alleged contacts with the Camorra. The other seven people are all accused of providing D'Aguano with a series of services and information on investigations in which he was involved. A couple were arrested: one was a prosecutor's officer, the other a police officer in the police headquarters' security detail. They also included D'Aguano, two officers from the Fidene police station, and three from the patrol car unit. According to the investigation, the seven provided assistance to the businessman under investigation for money laundering. The prosecutor's officer, Simona Amadio, who worked in the secretariat of a deputy prosecutor, and her partner, who worked in the police headquarters' security detail, provided information obtained by consulting the database of suspects and wiretaps. The other officers offered assistance at various levels and provided security services at the businessman's premises. In exchange, everyone received various benefits: from money to discounted car purchases and repairs, to the promise of company shares. Simona Amadio had been a candidate in the last municipal elections for the League, on the 'Noi per Salvini' list. The 50-year-old woman was, by her own admission, the 'mole' in the prosecutor's office working for D'Aguano. "I want to keep Carlo," the arrested woman said, speaking about the businessman in question to her partner. "So you have to think, love, that, like all busybodies, he has friends who are police officers." "So the mole in the prosecutor's office…," the woman added, when wiretapped, "the first thing he (D'Aguano) asked me was 'can I trust him?'" He needs support from the prosecutor's office, someone who can open the door and take a look." Among the police officers who ended up in Regina Coeli is Francesco Macaluso, 38, recently awarded for saving a young man who was attempting suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of a building. And it wasn't Macaluso's first rescue: speaking to reporters on that occasion, he said it was the fifth time he had saved a life, "all men."
“That thing in the office is going, it’s being resolved, whatever you need, you know, I’m available”. This is what the clerk in service at the Rome Prosecutor’s Office, Simona Amadio, told the entrepreneur Carlo D’Aguano in a wiretapped conversation on January 2. The investigating judge Cinzia Parasporo writes in the precautionary prison order signed for the two and six other police officers: “D’Aguano asked to see her and if she was working the next day and Amadio said that the next morning she would be in the office and that Martina Fedeli (another colleague of hers in the office at the Prosecutor’s Office, ed.) would be there too “but the less shit she knows the better, anyway, anyway, I’m in the office, I’m operational. For the investigating judge, “Amadio’s declared full availability towards D’Aguano was implemented a few days later. In fact – the provision states – the investigations carried out on the accesses made by the public employee, using her credentials, to the SICP (the Criminal Cognition Information System) highlighted that on 9 January 2018 she had accessed it to question the name of D'Aguano Carlo. And in the circumstance Amadio had had confirmation of the existence of criminal proceedings 30521/17 (general register of crime news), of which this proceeding constitutes an extract, registered against D'Aguano, also stealing the names of the other suspects, the registered crimes, the delegated judicial police body, the investigating prosecutor and the status of the proceedings. The day before, D'Aguano and Amadio had met at the judicial city after having contacted each other by phone calls”. In a passage of the order, the judge also recalls that the clerk, "as an assistant to a deputy prosecutor, can use her credentials (username and password) to conduct searches and, in some cases, to make changes to all the files registered in the register, both during the investigation and defined for the Prosecutor's Office, except for those for which the prosecutor has issued a confidentiality order". And Amadio would have had access to the computer register even "to view the pending cases of the supplier of narcotic/anabolic substances of her partner" without this "having anything to do with the public functions of the person under investigation".
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