Police officer Marco Malerba told a
Milan preliminary investigations judge (GIP) on Thursday that he
illegally harvested data as a favour allegedly requested by his
"boss", former supercop Carmine Gallo, as part of a major
snooping and hacking probe, investigative sources said Thursday.
Gallo, who is under house arrest, is accused of being one of the
leaders of the gang suspected of compiling dossiers on
commission by illegally harvesting data from highly sensitive
national databases.
Meanwhile, hacker Massimiliano Camponovo, one of four people
arrested in connection with the case, told the judge that he
"fears for my safety and that of my family" and admitted he
"received data and compiled reports" on behalf of the
organization.
"I am concerned, I could tell there was something obscure behind
this system", Camponovo allegedly said during questioning.
And Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, the main hacker now under house
arrest, told GIP Fabrizio Filice, who questioned some of the
main suspects in the case on Thursday, that, "from an empirical
standpoint, the things I have read on newspapers are impossible
to carry out", referring to the alleged activities of the
snooping and hacking gang, including accessing information from
the police force database.
Calamucci invoked the right to remain silent before the judge,
saying he wants to read investigative papers before speaking to
State attorneys investigating the case.
The suspect in the huge snooping case mainly involving the
Italian business world was wiretapped as saying he had 800,000
confidential data on his hard disk, according to Milan
anti-mafia prosecutors' documents details of which were
published by media outlets.
Calamucci allegedly had "at his disposal a hard disk containing
eight hundred thousand SDIs", or information acquired from the
police force database, the documents said.
"Eight hundred thousand SDI, I have over here", he allegedly
said when intercepted last January speaking with former super
policeman Carmine Gallo, who was also arrested as one of the
suspected ringleaders along with former Milan Fair Foundation
president Enrico Pazzali.
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