An alleged Milan-based snooping gang
accused of compiling dossiers on commission by harvesting data
from highly sensitive national databases was "influenced" by an
unidentified "group of people abroad", in particular in London,
computer technician Massimiliano Camponovo, who is under house
arrest in connection with the case, has told prosecutors.
The activities of the hacking gang, which allegedly revolved
around Enrico Pazzali's Equalize investigative company, had a
"hierarchically superior foreign dimension" with "disquieting"
connections in particular with Samuele Calamucci, an alleged
hacker and aide to ex supercop Carmine Gallo, suspected of being
the ringleader by Milanese anti-mafia investigative directorate
DDA and by the National anti-mafia and anti-terror directorate
DNA probing the case.
Both Gallo and Calamucci have been arrested.
"I know I was in the wrong", Camponovo told prosecutors during
questioning on Tuesday, admitting his responsibility and saying
he is "scared" by what he described as the "obscure hand" that
influenced the gang's activities, investigative sources said
Wednesday.
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