Daily dossier, after Striano & Co. the banker who spies on current accounts –

Rita Cavallaro

October 11, 2024

From the Antimafia vermin to the SOS market, up to the banker who sneaks into current accounts. And in the Italy of spies the victims are always the same: the government and centre-right politicians. So much so that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni now takes it almost philosophically, publishing a selfie with her sister Arianna, with a rather ironic comment: “Give us today our daily dossier”.

Because the Prime Minister, the object of criticism from the left who accuses him every day of playing the victim, is really the victim, with his entire government, of an espionage that is now out of control. A systematic attack on the democratic order, which already clearly emerges from the investigation of the Perugia prosecutor, Raffaele Cantone (in the photo, ed.), who for months has been on the trail of the instigators, accomplices and recipients of that monstrous number of dossiers concocted to the Super Prosecutor’s Office.

First the obsession of Striano & Co, the alleged dossier team that has targeted the center-right big names since the first days of the formation of the Palazzo Chigi team and which was discovered thanks to the complaint by the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, target of the unfaithful financier’s abusive access to the databases and the transfer of confidential documents to three Domani journalists.

Once the worm has been cleared away with the arrival of the new chief prosecutor Giovanni Melillo at the DNA, Melillo himself, in good company with Meloni, Crosetto and other ministers, then ends up in the sights of an official of Banca Intesa, who combed through the current accounts of 3,500 customers from 2022 to last August, when he was fired immediately following the credit institution’s investigations, which began with a complaint from an account holder at the Bitonto branch, in the province of Bari. Among those spied on by the bank, who is now under criminal investigation for violating the secrecy of hypersensitive data on political personalities, there are Giorgia and Arianna Meloni, the prime minister’s former partner, the journalist Andrea Giambruno, the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanché, the head of European Affairs and today executive vice-president with responsibility for EU Cohesion and Reforms, Raffaele Fitto, the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, the president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, the prosecutor of Trani, Renato Nitti and then graduates of the Carabinieri and senior officers of the Financial Police.

«There are many legitimate questions: how many dossiers have they built in recent years? How many are there that we don’t know yet? And then: why, at whose request, for what purpose?”, wrote Crosetto yesterday on but during which he addressed the issue regarding probable links between the spies and unfaithful 007s. Just as on the one hand the Cantone investigation, and on the other that of Bari, are trying to delve deeper, to unravel the key to a skein that could reveal a red thread, albeit invisible at the moment, between the events.

Because no one believes the fairy tale of the financier with Don Quixote syndrome, who puts his career at risk to satisfy the requests of his journalist friends.

Nor is it plausible that an unsuspecting banker goes to the office for two years and instead of dealing with bank transfers and opening accounts, out of mere curiosity sneaks into the financial dealings of half the government, with the risk of ending up in prison for having spied on the Prime Minister. Italian. The Banca Intesa official who acts as treasurer to parliamentarians, according to investigations, carried out 7,000 illegal accesses to over 3,500 customers between February 2022 and April 2024, with the portfolio in 679 branches spread across Italy.