Garlasco murder, Venditti’s lawyer writes to Nordio: “Intervene against abuses”

Milan, Oct. 25 (LaPresse) – Lawyer Domenico Aiello, legal counsel for former deputy prosecutor of Pavia Mario Venditti, has appealed to the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, asking how it is possible that “today the two main Italian newspapers, evidently ‘guarantist’ when it suits them, are giving wide coverage to the notification of a new seizure order served to three or more suspects” in the Brescia branch of the Garlasco murder case, claiming that he has not “received said notification.” “The reporters contacted for this purpose confirm to me that I supposedly received the notification yesterday – Aiello states in a note – unbeknownst to me, therefore, and thus since yesterday evening they would already be entitled to report the news and its alleged contents.” The defense lawyer for the retired magistrate says this would be the “third seizure order on Dr. Venditti’s assets,” who “is under investigation for corruption in judicial acts” by an “unknown corrupter,” since no one in Andrea Sempio’s family has been entered in the register of suspects. The first seizure order (September 26) was partially annulled by the Brescia Review Court, ordering the return of all IT devices with “the inadmissibility” of any extracted forensic copies, and “we are waiting to know the reasons.” On the second seizure (October 8, on the same IT devices but for facts unrelated to Garlasco) an appeal is pending before the Review Court, and “we have been waiting for weeks – Aiello writes – the Court has not been able to schedule a hearing due to the failure of the Brescia Prosecutor’s Office to file the documents.” For Venditti’s lawyer, what is underway is an “unprecedented” “attack” in which the “defense is forced to deal with the unknown” and with “the press, which notoriously has other, albeit legitimate, purposes.”