Overview
- Guardia di Finanza teams entered the Garante’s Rome headquarters to acquire documents and devices on a mandate from the Rome Prosecutor’s Office.
- Corriere della Sera reports that president Pasquale Stanzione and other members of the Authority are under investigation on suspected embezzlement and corruption.
- The investigation is coordinated by deputy prosecutor Giuseppe De Falco, with officers seizing paperwork and IT materials and, according to reporting, phone records and mobile devices.
- The searches followed the expiry today of a prosecutor-set deadline for expense records tied to the four Collegio members after the Authority sought an extension.
- The probe follows exposés by Report and Il Fatto Quotidiano and internal complaints, with investigators examining potential conflicts of interest, irregular management, illicit IT access, and possible efforts to identify journalists’ sources.