Snooping gang also 'spied on Russian citizens'

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 28 - A suspected computer snooping gang allegedly led by former top police officer Carmine Gallo and Milan Fair Foundation President Enrico Pazzali that got confidential information on mostly business, as well as political and showbusiness figures also spied on Russian citizens, according to court papers that emerged on Monday.
    Papers on the probe led by Milanese DDA anti-mafia investigators said the group's alleged hacker, Samuele Calamucci, spoke about a "dossier" on a "famous Russian oligarch" in a wiretapped conversation.
    In other passages of the court papers written by Milan State attorneys, prosecutors say they attempted to determine the identity of the Russian national and the only element is "an episode involving Russian-Kazakh citizens (Victor Kharitonin and Alexandrovich Toporov)" and the "construction of a hotel in Cortina d'Ampezzo and the management of several luxury resorts".
    Another dossier allegedly involved fashion entrepreneurs Vladimir Tsyganov and Oxana Bondarenko, according to investigative sources. (ANSA).