The department that coordinates Italy’s intelligence agencies has filed a complaint with prosecutors in Perugia against the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Lo Voi, over the leaking of a confidential report.
The case regards the publication by daily newspaper Domani of information about Meloni’s Chief of Staff, Gaetano Caputi, that came from a classified document by the Aisi intelligence agency.
It is alleged that Lo Voi’s office received the document and failed to take the necessary measures to prevent it from being leaked.
Meanwhile, the non-magistrate members of the judiciary’s self-governing body, the CSM, nominated by the ruling coalition, have requested that transfer and disciplinary procedures be opened against Lo Voi.
Tension was already high between the government and Lo Voi’s office after it put Meloni and some other ministers in the register of people being probed over the case of Osama Almasri.
Almasri, a Libyan judicial police chief, was released by Italy last month days after being detained in Turin on an International Criminal Court warrant.
Meloni complained about the move in a video posted online after she received notification of it.
“It is unacceptable for a prime minister to use her power of communication to make a video against an individual magistrate, followed by a complaint from the intelligence services that is under the prime minister’s office,” Conte said.
“Then a request comes from the non-magistrate members of the CSM for the magistrate’s transfer.
“What the prime minister’s office is doing seems to me to be an act of institutional bullying that must be rejected.”
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