Magistrates open file on wiretap leaks

(ANSA) - Rome, July 30 - 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.