Overview

• Filings to the Brescia review court describe suspected peculato totaling about €750,000 and the use of multiple high‑end cars, with former Pavia chief prosecutor Mario Venditti and Milan prosecutor Pietro Paolo Mazza under investigation.
• TV reports say Venditti refused to provide passwords to his seized phone and computer, prompting prosecutors to seek access from manufacturers and potentially slowing the timetable.
• Investigators cite a seized note reading “Venditti gip archivia X 20.30 euro” and roughly €35,000 in cash withdrawals in 2016–2017 as indicators of a payoff tied to the 2017 archiving; the Sempio family says the money went to lawyers, and recent annotations report no anomalies on Venditti’s accounts.
• Requests to run bank checks on the judge who approved the 2017 archiving and on longtime case figures the Cappa sisters were not authorized, even as probes detail contacts with ex‑carabinieri Silvio Sapone and Giuseppe Spoto and note gambling expenditures and timing irregularities in 2017 transcripts.
• Andrea Sempio met defense lawyer Massimo Lovati and will decide in the coming days whether to revoke his mandate, after recordings sparked complaints and possible disciplinary checks; Lovati says he will not step down.