Rome, 1 December (LaPresse) – The accusation of having received money to dismiss Andrea Sempio's case ‘is, as I have already repeated several times, unfounded and ridiculous. And that is all I have to say.’ So said the former deputy prosecutor of Pavia, Mario Venditti, in an interview with Tg1. When asked if there is a vendetta against him by the magistrates of the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office, Venditti replied: ‘That is a question you need to ask them. I limit myself to evaluating the facts, and the facts are these: three searches in less than a month is not normal.’ Conducting the investigation into Andrea Sempio in relation to the murder of Chiara Poggi ‘was an excess of zeal,’ , emphasises former Pavia deputy prosecutor Mario Venditti in an interview with Tg1. Venditti recalls that ‘in the dismissal order, the investigating magistrate basically wrote in black and white that I was wrong, that I should have stopped at the rejection of the January 2017 review request. Conducting the investigation was an excess of zeal’. When asked if what is emerging is causing him to have doubts, Venditti replies: “It will be a clash between experts. Let's see what comes out. How will this story end? Much ado about nothing”.