Overview

• Brescia prosecutors registered Venditti as an indagato for corruption in acts of the judiciary and ordered dawn searches at his residences in Pavia, Genoa and Campione d’Italia, as well as at the homes of Sempio’s parents and uncles and two former Pavia carabinieri.
• The decree cites a hypothesized payment of roughly €20,000–€30,000 tied to archiving Sempio’s 2017 case, alongside alleged omissions in intercept transcripts, a very brief interrogation and “opaque” contacts between the Sempio family and police-judiciary personnel.
• Financial checks report about €43,000 in cheques from Sempio’s paternal aunts and roughly €35,000 in subsequent cash withdrawals in 2016–2017, and investigators point to a note reading “Venditti,” “20/30 €” and “gip archivia” dated to early February 2017.
• Venditti publicly denies ever taking money, while Giuseppe Sempio says he wrote the note and that the figure referred to €20–€30 for stamps or small legal expenses, and the family says they met Venditti only once.
• Separately, the Pavia GIP granted a 70‑day extension of the incident probatorio for court-appointed experts conducting new genetic and fingerprint analyses in the reopened homicide inquiry.