High court prosecutor asks for report on Crocetta case (3)

(ANSA) - Rome, July 22 - The prosecutor at the high Court of Cassation, Pasquale Ciccolo, on Wednesday asked palermo prosecutor Roberto Scarpinato to report on a controversial wiretap involving Sicilian Governor Rosario Crocetta, the existence of which is disputed. Ciccolo reportedly wants to know if he should get involved, sources said. Crocetta suspended himself after a magazine published the tap in which he allegedly said nothing when his doctor Matteo Turino, probed in a hospital graft case, said Sicily health councillor Lucia Borsellino should meet the same fate as her Cosa-Nostra slain father, anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino.
    Crocetta said he was the victim of a smear campaign after prosecutor's offices said they had no such wiretap on their files but the magazine, l'Espresso, stood by its story, saying the tap had been classified.
    The governor, a member of Premier Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party (PD), is suing l'Espresso for 10 million euros. Renzi is meeting the PD's head in Sicily, Fausto Raciti, on Thursday.