No State can tolerate dossiers says Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 27 - No state governed by the rule of law can tolerate illegal dossier gathering as has been the case in Italy on several recent occasions, Premier Giorgia Meloni says in journalist Bruno Vespa's new book and amid a huge new Milanese snooping scandal involving mainly the business world and after a previous case in which she herself was targeted.
    "The investigations say that the dossier on me began at the end of the Draghi government when it was clear that I could have gone to government," she says.
    "On the issue of the dossiers, I expect the judiciary to get to the bottom of it, because, in the best case scenario, at the basis of this work there was a system of blackmail and extortion, but in the worst case scenario we are faced with the crime of subversion. No rule of law can tolerate something like this".
    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. (ANSA).