Overview

• Guardia di Finanza and Carabinieri conducted coordinated morning searches at the homes of Andrea Sempio’s parents and uncles, two former Pavia judicial police officers, and Mario Venditti in Pavia, Genoa and Campione d’Italia.
• Venditti, now president of the Casinò di Campione d’Italia and formerly Pavia’s chief prosecutor, is under investigation on suspicion of corruption in judicial acts tied to decisions that archived inquiries into Sempio in 2017 and 2020.
• The inquiry was triggered by a bloc‑note found in May at Sempio’s parents’ home bearing the words “Venditti,” “20/30 €,” and “gip archivia,” dated to early February 2017, before Sempio was formally notified as a suspect.
• Financial analyses identified about €40,000 in transfers among Sempio relatives beginning in December 2016 that investigators are examining for links to possible illicit payments.
• Searches also targeted two ex‑carabinieri who notified Sempio and transcribed intercepted conversations that investigators say included omissions, while Sempio remains the sole suspect in the new homicide thread.