From the Clean 2 papers it emerges that the “unfaithful” carabinieri close to the former prosecutor Mario Venditti would have directed some operations linked to public construction sites according to their own advantage. One concerns the San Matteo Polyclinic.
From the Clean 2 file also emerge the political relations of the “Squad” of cops which revolved around the former assistant prosecutor of Pavia Mario Venditti, investigated in Brescia for corruption in judicial documents in relation to the dismissal of Andrea Sempio’s position for the murder of Garlasco in 2017.
It is between Pavia and San Genesio that one of the most controversial events took place. The protagonist is Brigadier Daniele Ziri, serving at the Labor Inspectorate Unit of the Army. On 27 April 2023, the anti-mafia interforce control room meets in the prefecture headquarters. Checks are arranged at public construction sites in the province. Among the sites to check is that of the San Genesio elementary school. The date set is between May 10th and 12th. But six days earlier, i.e. on May 4, Brigadier Ziri showed up at the construction site, “in the absence of delegation”, the investigators underline. The telephone cells place him on site between 8.14 and 11.10. An information from the Financial Police reconstructs the motivations behind Ziri’s blitz: he would have “notified the security managers in advance” to «avoid worse consequences in the case of a joint control».
The safety of the construction site had been entrusted to Civiling Lab Srl, a company which according to the Financial Police would be «attributable to the former MEP Angelo Ciocca (also owner of the Stc design studio, ed.)», a former Northern League MEP at odds with his party, was first convicted and then acquitted for the regional Rimborsopoliwhile in 2025 the Pavia Prosecutor’s Office sent him to trial on charges of incitement to corruption. The interceptions would document the direct contact with the engineer Giulio Di Bartolo, legal representative of Civiling Lab: «You called me just while I was in front of Ziri!». On the other end of the phone is the Carabinieri Marshal Antonio Scoppetta, sentenced in first instance to 4 years and 6 months for stalking and corruption. The answer is: «Damn!». Scoppetta appears surprised. And he asks: «But did he come to your office?». Di Bartolo immediately clarifies: «No, no, from STC, Angelo introduced him to me». A phrase that seems to be sufficient to connect the military to the local political-entrepreneurial circuit. Confirmation later came from one of the suspects, the builder Carlo Primo Boiocchi. «I contacted Ziri after the request for the pending charges, which had worried me a lot and therefore I wanted to discuss with him what was happening and if he had any information about it».
The next step must have appeared to the investigators as a sort of litmus test: «He told me that he didn’t know anything but he seemed worried to me, because he said that there was tension within the “system”, There were rumors that something was about to happen in San Genesio». It is at this point that the investigators try to better understand what the entrepreneur meant by the word “system”: “I mean everything that revolved around them, that is, Scoppetta, Ziri, Ciocca”. And it all leads back to the inspection at the school construction site: «When there was an inspection at the San Genesio school», recalls Boiocchi, «I read on Luce Pavese (a blog that reported local news, ed.) that, once the inspection had been carried out, Ziri went to the STC to draw up the report. I already knew that both Scoppetta and Ziri were friends of Ciocca and for me that was confirmation.” In the same papers the investigators broaden their gaze beyond the single episode: «The network of contacts between representatives of the public administrations involved, as well as the political and business world, makes the investigations particularly complex».
Relationships which, according to those investigating, would have been able “to direct and influence the administrative procedures of the San Genesio area and beyond”. The picture of the alleged links with politics would have found further confirmation in the summary information provided by the Carabiniere Pietro Picone. When asked if he had noticed politicians in the office of former major Maurizio Pappalardo he replied: “Yes, I remember the Honorable Mura, but I don’t know anything else.” And Roberto Mura, former senator and regional councilor, was, coincidentally, twice mayor of San Genesio.
But there would be another line of investigation to confirm the link with politics. This is one of the most delicate investigations of the pandemic, the one into the San Matteo Polyclinic which today, according to news released yesterday by some media, would be at the center of a new investigation. According to the Brescia Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating Venditti and his former replacement Paolo Mazza, that 2020 investigation would have been used as an improper weapon to favor a circuit of interests. THEn the midst of Covid, Venditti and Mazza investigated the hospital management for embezzlement and disturbancestarting with President Alessandro Venturi, and ordered the judicial police to seize the telephone of the Lombard governor Attilio Fontana and his health councilor, Giulio Gallera. That investigation ended in nothing, but today Brescia seems to want to understand why it was started. The chief prosecutor Francesco Prete and the prosecutor Claudia Moregola (the same one who hypothesizes corruption in judicial documents for Garlasco against Venditti) would have already heard Fontana as a person informed on the facts.
From the testimonies it appears that the initial push for the investigation came from a group of local power interested in taking control of the hospital. President Venturi, considered “unapproachable”, was allegedly subjected to pressure and, after the investigation opened, warned that his phone was being tapped. The person who informed him, the press reports, was Elena Galati, head of staff at San Matteo and wife of the prosecutor Venditti. The name of Pappalardo would also have appeared, who would have aimed at managing the hospital’s security. Three years later, however, Mazza himself closed the case by asking for full acquittal of the suspects.
