The Garlasco crime is enriched with a new, curious element. The suspected archiving of Sempio in 2017 and the role of Mario Venditti
Three is a special number for the Garlasco crime. Alberto Stasi went to trial three times: acquitted the first two times, convicted the third time in 2015. And Andrea Sempio was investigated three times for the Garlasco crime: the first two dismissed, the third presumably sent to trial.
But the first of those three times, between 2016 and 2017, contemplates a curious – let’s call it that – note, exhumed last October following the new Garlasco investigation, within a file of the Information Unit of the Carabinieri of Pavia. Ten handwritten lines containing a gross error, but above all with corrections to a draft of the dismissal request for the then 28-year-old finally “implemented” by the then investigators.
The content of the writing
We therefore report the text in its entirety, for the sake of precision and record: “The present proceeding originates from a complaint signed by Andrea Stasi’s mother, Mrs. Elisabetta Ligabò, which arrived at the General Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Appeal of Milan and from which it forwarded for territorial jurisdiction to this Public Prosecutor’s Office (Pavia). In this complaint, in the light of certain defense investigations entrusted to a private company, indications of guilt for the murder of Chiara Poggi against a person other than Andrea Stasi, in this case Andrea Sempio”.
It’s a shame that the Information Unit had no “title to dispose of the draft provision”. In view of the new investigation, not only that on Sempio, but also that linked to corruption, the investigators have sent the documents to the Brescia Prosecutor’s Office.
The connection with the thread of corruption
Why have these documents resurfaced after so many years? Well, because in October 2025 the Pavia prosecutors had asked the carabinieri to search for any documents on Sempio. They had in fact discovered that on 24 December 2016 the then commander of the Unit Maurizio Pappalardo, recently convicted of corruption and stalking in the “Clean 2” case – most likely linked to the so-called “Pavia system” – would have photographed the documents with his mobile phone “from the desk of the then deputy prosecutor (Mario Venditti)after having received insistent messages requesting it from the Prosecutor’s Office from Antonio Scoppetta”, Marshal of the Carabinieri in Pavia.
The file on Sempio linked to Garlasco
No trace of those photos. Vanish into thin air. On the other hand, the investigators discovered a “P (permanent) file” on Sempio, opened on 25 March 2017, a few days after the investigating judge’s first filing. The most interesting element of that file did not concern the dismissal decree itself, but rather a draft filing requestwith some handwritten notes and that “stapled” sheet before the first page. Ah, a curiosity that you have probably already noticed: in the manuscript Stasi is mistakenly called Andrea, and not Alberto. However, in the final request, the annotated corrections, without dates and signatures, were finally accepted by the investigators.
The role of this writing in the broader picture remains to be understood: that of the corruption thread, entrusted to the Pavia Prosecutor’s Office, and consequently the main one, linked to the murder of Chiara Poggi.
