The Carabinieri searched the Milanese home of Fabrizio Corona, investigated for receiving stolen goods as part of the investigation against a Carabinieri officer and a politician from Mazara del Vallo.
The two tried to sell the photographer and a journalist confidential material on the capture of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro illegally acquired from the Carabinieri's computer system.
The investigation led to the arrest of the soldier, Luigi Pirollo, and a municipal councilor of Mazara del Vallo, Giorgio Randazzo, who allegedly contacted Corona offering him the scoop in exchange for money. They offer Corona confidential files on Messina Denaro, arrested (2)
According to the reconstruction of the prosecutors, the carabiniere, on duty at the NOR of the Mazara del Vallo Company, illegally entered the information system of the force, extracted copies of 786 confidential files relating to the investigations into the capture of the godfather, arrested by the ROS on January 16, and delivered them to Randazzo.
The latter contacted Corona and tried to sell him the top secret documents. Then, on the photographer's instructions, he approached Moreno Pisto, director of the online newspaper Mow, proposing to buy the material.
After the capture of the former fugitive, the photographer came into possession of a series of audio chats between the boss and some patients he had met in the clinic during chemotherapy when, still wanted, he was using the identity of the surveyor Andrea Bonafede.
The circumstance prompted investigators to put Corona's phone under surveillance. In one of the intercepted conversations, which dates back to May 2, the photographer referred to a "crazy scoop" that a city councilor, later identified as Randazzo, had in his possession, thanks to unspecified carabinieri who had searched the mafia boss's hideouts and who wanted to sell the material.
In the following days Corona continued to express his intention to resell the material that the councilor would have procured for him. On May 25 Pisto, Randazzo and the photographer met.
On that occasion, the Mow journalist, with a stratagem, managed to secretly make a copy of the files shown to him and offered by the politician. Having viewed them and realizing the sensitivity of the material, he turned to a colleague who advised him to speak to the police.
Pisto then went to the Palermo Mobile and told the whole story. Based on his testimony, the investigators began to investigate and discovered, through computer investigations, that the documents copied by the journalist without the councilor's knowledge had been stolen and that the author of the theft was Pirollo.
The latter had left traces of his “entry” into the system and was one of only two officers who had accessed the Campobello Station server (the other carabiniere was found to be unconnected to the facts).
Continuing to investigate, the investigators also discovered that the carabiniere had frequent relationships with the councilor. The attempt to plant the files was thus foiled and Corona's words intercepted in May were clarified at that point.
Article published on 20 July 2023 - 07:17
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