Milan, 1 November (LaPresse) – Forty-five days for the “forensic copy”. From that moment, another “two months” for the selection, by investigators from the GICO (Guardia di Finanza Special Tax Police Unit) in Brescia, of “material” of “investigative relevance” on the relations between the Sempio family and the top management of the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office and the judicial police in 2016-17. These are the timescales – three and a half months in total – indicated by the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office in the order for a one-off technical investigation of telephones and computers seized from former deputy Mario Venditti and Andrea Sempio's father, Giuseppe Sempio, in the investigation into alleged corruption in judicial proceedings behind the first investigation into the Garlasco murder involving the shop assistant from Voghera. The forensic IT expert, Matteo Ghigo, 34, with a CV that includes expert reports and consultancy for courts and public prosecutors, “Mobile Forensics” courses for ROS investigators and the development of two software programmes called “Ermès” and “WACE” for data extraction, “deleted file recovery and email analysis” as well as the forensic acquisition of “WhatsApp and Telegram conversations” using a system that explores and indexes them, reproducing them as they would appear in a browser. On Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the DIFOB studio in Pinerolo, he will begin extracting the forensic copy to transfer the data, ensuring its “integrity”, to a “copy medium”. This is to be delivered in 45 days to the investigators coordinated by Brescia public prosecutor Claudia Moregola and prosecutor Francesco Prete. According to the latest seizure order, they will be granted an additional “two months” from the time of delivery of the copy-medium to search for evidence of any “payment of money to investigators”, including “through third parties”, to “influence” the investigations into Sempio and the “channels of money monetisation”. The Public Prosecutor's Office also intends to acquire data “starting from July 2014”, when Venditti became deputy prosecutor in Pavia and almost three years before the alleged corruption involving the Sempio family, in order to investigate the “relationships” between the retired magistrate and former Carabinieri officers Silvio Sapone and Giuseppe Spoto, who are not under investigation and are not involved in the unrepeatable technical investigation, which has not been notified to them and therefore they will not be able to participate with their own legal counsel. All this while the Brescia Review Court must return to rule on the legitimacy of those seizures and the usability of that data after annulling the first decree of 26 September with reference to all the computer material. The first hearing before the judges in the parallel case on the “Pavia system” is expected on Monday, while the new appeal in the “Garlasco” case, already announced by Venditti's defence lawyers, Domenico Aiello, and Sapone's lawyer, Massimo Marmonti, has yet to be scheduled.
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