Italy's Supreme Council of
Magistrates (CSM), the judiciary's self-governing body, on
Thursday initiated procedures to investigate the publication of
two separate wiretapped conversations involving Prime Minister
Matteo Renzi and Sicily Governor Rosario Crocetta.
The files have been assigned to a commission presided by
Paola Balducci to investigate, the CSM said.
Leaked wiretaps related to a corruption probe and published
in Il Fatto Quotidiano paper this month revealed Renzi made
unflattering comments about former premier and fellow Democratic
Party (PD) member Enrico Letta.
"He's inept, he's not a bad guy, just totally inept," Renzi
said about then premier Letta in a January 11, 2014, wiretapped
conversation with Finance Police Interregional Commander Matteo
Adinolfi.
The two were talking about an investigation into two
businessmen suspected of links to the Casalesi clan of
Campania's Camorra mafia in connection with methane contracts in
the province of Caserta awarded to the CPL Concordia
cooperative.
Meanwhile Crocetta has been caught up in a scandal after
weekly magazine L'Espresso reported a wiretapped conversation
between him and his doctor, Matteo Tutino.
The magazine reported that Crocetta remained silent when
Tutino said Lucia Borsellino, daughter of slain anti-mafia
prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, should meet the same fate as her
father.
Sicilian prosecutors have said they have no record of such
a wiretapped phone conversation between Crocetta and Tutino,
but the magazine has stood by its story.
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