The former employee of Banca Intesa,
Vincenzo Coviello, who is being investigated by Bari prosecutors
for allegedly spying on the bank accounts of thousands of VIP
clients including Premier Giorgia Meloni, was likely "acting
together and under prior agreement with a person or more people
yet to be identified" who requested the sensitive information,
according to the six-page search warrant issued by judicial
authorities that led to the seizure of his computers, hard
disks, cell phone and tablet.
The search warrant said the man is suspected of illegally
accessing the financial data of leading institutional figures,
their family members and aides "to obtain for himself and/or
others, through the consultation of the data, information that,
in the interest of the State's security or, anyway, in the
domestic and international political interest of the State,
should have remained secret", according to information in the
warrant that became public on Friday.
The search operation was carried out on Thursday.
Meanwhile sources in Bari's State attorney's office said Italy's
biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo allegedly failed to promptly inform
judicial authorities that it had discovered that its employee
Domenico Coviello had illicitly accessed sensitive data from
February 2022 until April 2024.
Prosecutors are investigating the illicit access to the bank
accounts of 3,572 clients such as premier Giorgia Meloni, her
sister Arianna, the prime minister's former partner and
journalist Andrea Giambruno, Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa,
ministers and other top officials and VIPs.
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