Overview

• Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza executed coordinated searches on September 26 at nine locations, including Venditti’s residences in Pavia, Genova and Campione d’Italia, the homes of Andrea Sempio’s parents and relatives, and the houses of two former Pavia PG carabinieri.
• The inquiry was triggered by a handwritten note found in May at Sempio’s parents’ home reading “Venditti gip archivia x 20.30 €”, dated to early February 2017, days before Sempio was formally notified he was under investigation.
• Financial checks flagged about €43,000 in checks from Sempio’s paternal aunts to his father between December 2016 and mid‑2017 and roughly €35,000 in cash withdrawals, movements prosecutors are examining for possible illicit payments.
• The Brescia decree details alleged anomalies in the 2017 handling of Sempio’s case, including omitted transcription of relevant intercepted conversations, a notably brief interrogation, and “opaque contacts” with PG personnel Giuseppe Spoto and Silvio Sapone.
• Venditti denies any wrongdoing, Sempio’s father says he wrote the note and that the figures referred to minor expenses, the family contests having paid Venditti, and the Pavia judge granted a 70‑day extension of the ongoing incident probatorio for forensic work.