Former top police officer Carmine Gallo, who is under house arrest for allegedly leading a suspected computer snooping gang with ex-Milan Fair Foundation president Enrico Pazzali that got confidential information mostly on business, as well as political and showbusiness figures, has admitted to obtaining sensitive data, claiming it was kept confidential, judicial sources said Thursday.
During questioning with investigators on Wednesday, coordinated by DDA anti-mafia and anti-terror directorate and the DNA national anti-mafia office, Gallo said he never used confidential information to "harm someone's reputation or for money, but exclusively in a confidential manner", the sources said.
The former top police officer, who is represented by attorneys Antonella Augimeri and Paolo Simonetti, said "the potential illicit use of such information could not be attributed to him", according to the same sources.
Gallo, an administrator of Pazzali’s Equalize agency, also told prosecutors that he never “participated in any violation of software protecting confidential information”.
Investigators are probing the alleged massive "packaging" of dossiers through the illicit acquisition of confidential information from highly sensitive national databases Among the people under investigation are the entrepreneurs involved in the creation of those reports, allegedly commissioned from a hacker group.
According to the prosecutors, these entrepreneurs were aware of the illicit action of gathering information.
The gang, which allegedly included suspected top hacker Nunzio Calamucci, who is also under house arrest, is suspected of having had contacts at the National cybersecurity agency CAN, among others, according to investigators.
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