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06 May 2021 The CSM will constitute an offended party in the proceedings underway before the prosecutors who are dealing with the case of the minutes of the lawyer Piero Amara. This was decided - according to what has been learned - by the Presidency Committee of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, accepting the request that had been made by the group of independent judges.



With this step, the CSM will be able to exercise a series of prerogatives, starting from the request for documents to the prosecutors who are investigating. The Mi group had justified its request with the need to protect the CSM, the subject of "dossierage and delegitimization".



The investigation into the leak was entrusted to Storari

At the Milan prosecutor, Paolo Storari, at the center of the clash in the Milanese Public Prosecutor's Office for the case from the interrogations made by the lawyer Piero Amara, was assigned by the top of the office the investigation into the leak, when a reporter last autumn denounced having received those minutes. Investigation of which the same magistrate "undressed" last April, as soon as he became aware of the fact that the former secretary of Piercamillo Davigo was involved in the investigation opened in Rome, at the time a councilor of the CSM and to whom the same prosecutor he had given those papers to protect himself from inertia in the investigation of the alleged 'lodge Hungary'.



It is another of the intricate passages of the story that is shaking not only the Milanese courthouse, but also the CSM. From what has been possible to reconstruct, Storari, at the request of Greco and the adjunct Laura Pedio, took care of the investigation into the leak, when a reporter brought those reports received anonymously last October, and also arranged for advice to establish the provenance of those papers.



When he later learned that Rome was investigating Davigo's former secretary, who responds with slander and accused of having disclosed those secret interrogations, on 8 April, Storari reported to Greco that a year earlier he had handed over the papers to Davigo and decided to call himself out of that investigation. Decision taken to avoid serious consequences, given that the minutes that circulated were the same ones he had entrusted to the former toga of Mani Pulite.



From investigator to investigated

The investigation into the leak in recent weeks was then transmitted to Rome and in that file now Storari is being investigated for disclosure of official secrecy, while the prosecutors from Brescia have also recently opened an investigation, hypothesizing the same offense, but also for more extensive investigations on the work of the Milanese prosecutors.



Davigo, heard as witnesses yesterday by the Roman prosecutors, in his reconstruction said he had also reported to the pg of the Cassation, Giovanni Salvi, of the internal disputes at the Milanese prosecutor's office on an investigation involving Amara. Salvi, for his part, denied having heard of the minutes, but said he had "immediately" informed Greco, who entered the first names of the alleged lodge in May, after the cover-up complained of by Storari.



Storari who was in contrast with the added Fabio De Pasquale and Pedio also on the management of the investigation into the "false Eni conspiracy", in which Amara is investigated, together with the former Eni manager, Vincenzo Armanna, both very "valued" by De Pasquale in the trial on the Eni-Nigeria case, which ended with acquittals. The prosecutor Storari, among other things, also wanted to verify any profiles of slander in the statements in the minutes of the former external lawyer of Eni.



Review reserves the right to release from seizure documents

The Review of Rome has reserved the right to decide on the appeal presented by the defender of Marcella Contrafatto, the CSM employee (now suspended) investigated by the Public Prosecutor for slander because accused of having disseminated secret reports made by the  Piero Amara lawyer to the magistrates of Milan.



The request concerned the return of the material seized in the course of searches. "We appealed to the review court, arguing that in our opinion there is no prerequisite for the configurability of the slander crime - says the lawyer Alessia Angelini -. Furthermore, the 6 minutes of Amara were not made available to us. The prosecutor did not add. new deeds, instead we have filed a defense brief. There are some investigations in progress and my client is willing to collaborate in the investigation ".