Adnkronos Milan, January 7 (Adnkronos) – "I expect them to address serious matters rather than festering over this affair, and I expect someone who should be monitoring it to intervene and someone else to stop appearing on talk shows. We need to calm things down." Lawyer Domenico Aiello, representing former deputy prosecutor Mario Venditti, commented on the Brescia Review Court's annulment of the seizure order issued by the local prosecutor's office in the investigation into the so-called "Pavia system."
The lawyer hopes this cancellation will not be followed by a new kidnapping attempt, as already happened in the investigation into the Garlasco case.
Today's ruling—which concerns investigations into alleged cars purchased or sold at a discounted price and alleged wiretaps—was "totally annulled" due to "a vacuum of evidence. In court, the prosecution itself admitted that as early as last July, the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) had written in a report that the car's price was not discounted and that it had been paid in full." The lawyer also emphasized that "other prosecutors have also used the same provider for wiretaps or decoy cars, but for some magistrates, it is as if "an 'amnesty' has occurred." In short, for Aiello, "Venditti and the Pavia system are instrumental in the Garlasco affair," where the second review hearing is still pending after the first ordered the return of the former magistrate's phones and computers. And regarding the seizures, tomorrow the defense of the former deputy prosecutor will present a request to the Brescia investigating judge for an evidentiary hearing to clarify matters closely related to the case that accuses Venditti of corruption because, in exchange for money, he allegedly requested in 2017 the dismissal of Andrea Sempio, who is again under investigation for the murder of Chiara Poggi.
While the defense calls Venditti "the mediated target," the ultimate goal is clear: "to prove the murderer is innocent." In the Sempio case, "everything is genetically modified: they failed to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling, and now they want to achieve it through other means. Venditti is investigating because he receives documents from the Milan Prosecutor General's Office, conducts his own investigation, and requests the case be dismissed. The investigating judge Lambertucci, who dismissed the case, says that more was done than requested and appropriate given the inadmissibility of the review decided in Brescia and the binding nature of the res judicata on Alberto Stasi." Now the Pavia Prosecutor's Office is moving independently, "doing something against the procedure," because "neither the Milan or Brescia Prosecutor General's Office requested a different filing" in a case involving a convicted criminal. "I," concludes defense attorney Aiello, "am not opposed to correcting judicial errors when they are proven, and when the legal tools—namely, review—are used."