The prosecutor of the Republic of Perugia Raffaele Cantone was heard this year by the anti-mafia parliamentary commissionas part of the ongoing investigation into dossier carried out against important personalities from the world of politics but also football such as president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina. The latter, who decided to be heard yesterday by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office, is formally investigated for self-laundering and misappropriation for an issue relating to the assignment of Lega Pro’s TV rights in 2018 (when Gravina was the president, ed.) and for receiving an alleged bribe of 250,000. Regarding the matter of the pre-investigative operations of Striano and Laudati on Gravina “there have been a series of contacts with individuals from Lazio, but until proof is found there is no responsibility. We listened to Claudio Lotito in Perugia as a person informed on the facts, then we decided to send the documents to the Rome prosecutor’s office”, reports an agency Ansa regarding the statements made by the prosecutor Cantone.
BUT WHAT SOAP BUBBLES – On the rest of the investigation, Cantone added: “I believe there is a need to restore the truth about the facts that were said in this phase, some reported in a generic way having not known the documents and to intervene to protect a sacred institution like the national prosecutor’s office. I don’t deal with soap bubbles. And anyone who talks about soap bubbles will respond in the right places. There is a limit to everything, if you don’t know the documents you can’t make a judgment. There is a need for a series of tools such as judicial telematic infrastructures and I would like to remember this at a time in which with great difficulty we are moving towards the telematic trial“.
IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS – Cantone finally concluded his speech thus: “This is the second leak in this investigation. But we still haven’t understood who and how this news came out, damaging the investigation. I fully agree with the words of the anti-mafia prosecutor (Giovanni Melillo, ed.), on the fact that the numbers suggest there is more behind it. The numbers are disturbing because they are truly monstrous. Striano downloaded 33,528 files from the database of the national anti-mafia directorate. What happened to this enormous number of documents downloaded by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office? And how much of this data can be useful?“.
