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".
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