Snooping agst govt members backfired says Nordio

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 26 - Government members have been the targets of snooping and dossier gathering by unknown actors but that activity has backfired, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said Saturday echoing Premier Giorgia Meloni.
    Asked if there was a plot against the government as denounced by Meloni, Nordio replied: "Looking at the results of these investigations, I certainly agree with the Prime Minister. " "There was a dossier aimed at people of high political standing.
    That was the intention but then the results proved to be counterproductive for those who activated that operation," said Nordio.
    The State attorney's office in the Puglia city of Bari is investigating a former employee of Intesa Sanpaolo bank who allegedly "illicitly" accessed nearly 7,000 times the bank accounts of VIP clients including Meloni, her former partner, journalist Andrea Giambruno, Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa, Meloni's sister Arianna, head of the secretariat of her rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè ,National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, members of the military, and top footballers and entertainment figures.
    Nordio went on to say, referring to a new Milan probe into alleged massive snooping and dossier gathering: "I believe that we are not safe and will not be safe until the law on the one hand and the technology at our disposal have managed to align with the technology available to crime".
    He reiterated: "Generally speaking, technology is advancing faster than the laws, it has done so in all sectors, starting with bioethics.
    "The ill-intentioned are always a little ahead of the States, they have even managed to hack the Kremlin. "We must activate our efforts to align the current legislation, which we are already doing, and use our imagination to predict, without having to chase the ill-intentioned". (ANSA).