The Brussels offices of a Italian manager were searched late on Tuesday by Carabinieri police in collaboration with the Belgian authorities in an operation linked an investigation into an alleged Milan-based snooping gang accused of compiling dossiers on commission by harvesting data from highly sensitive national databases, sources said on Wednesday.
Antonio Rossi, a manager for an auditing firm, is allegedly linked to Nunzio Calamucci, an alleged hacker and aide to ex supercop Carmine Gallo, who is suspected of being one of the group's ringleaders.
Computers and other devices were seized during the search, the sources said.
Rossi was allegedly meant to create a London-based 'clone' of Equalize, an investigative company at the centre of the probe.
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