Overview

• Guardia di Finanza and Carabinieri carried out coordinated searches at the homes of Venditti, members of the Sempio family, and two former Pavia judicial police officers, with nine people covered by the decree.
• The inquiry cites a handwritten note found on May 14 at Sempio’s parents’ home reading “Venditti” and “gip archivia” with “20/30 €,” dated to early February 2017 before Sempio was formally notified; the defense requests a handwriting analysis.
• Financial checks reported by the Guardia di Finanza flagged checks totaling about €43,000 from paternal aunts and roughly €35,000 in cash withdrawals between December 2016 and June 2017, which prosecutors call anomalous.
• Prosecutors also point to untranscribed intercept passages and “opaque contacts” in the 2017 probe, including a conversation referencing the need to “pay those gentlemen” and a brief interrogation that investigators say Sempio’s family appeared to anticipate.
• Venditti denies taking money and says he feels offended by the accusation, while Sempio’s lawyer argues the sums cited are too low for a corruption theory; separately, the evidentiary timeline was extended with the next hearing set for December 18 and the contested “impronta 33” excluded.