By Emilio Parodi
MILAN (Reuters) -Italian police have positioned 4 individuals underneath home arrest together with Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the late billionaire founding father of Luxottica, as a part of a probe into alleged unlawful entry to state databases, a supply mentioned on Saturday.
A lawyer for Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio mentioned he was “eagerly awaiting the completion of preliminary investigations to have the ability to show he has nothing to do with the occasions in query and that prices laid towards him don’t have any foundation.
“He appears to be quite a sufferer given preliminary allegations and the destructive final result of the search carried out,” lawyer Maria Emanuela Mascalchi mentioned in a press release.
The alleged database entry was carried out by a non-public intelligence enterprise run by a former policeman, an individual with direct data of the matter informed Reuters.
Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio is the son of Leonardo Del Vecchio, who based Ray Ban-owner Luxottica. He allegedly tasked the intelligence company with gathering data, as his father’s heirs are in disagreement over the inheritance, the particular person mentioned. The tycoon died in 2022.
The unlawful entry to confidential information, which was allegedly offered to clients or used to blackmail businessmen and politicians, went again to no less than 2019 and continued as much as March 2024, a court docket doc seen by Reuters confirmed.
Milan prosecutors allege the enterprise intelligence company tapped into three key databases: one gathering alerts over suspicious monetary actions; one utilized by the nationwide tax company with residents’ financial institution transactions, utility payments, revenue statements; and the police investigations’ database, the particular person mentioned.
Italy’s nationwide anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Melillo informed reporters on Saturday the probe “rang alarm bells” as a result of it make clear the “gigantic marketplace for confidential data” which has acquired “a business-like dimension”, ANSA information company reported.
The probe follows one other latest investigation right into a large-scale information breach at Italy’s high financial institution Intesa Sanpaolo (OTC:).
