2024-10-16 16:31:00
Caught red-handed. Paolino Iorio, general director of Sogei, a public company specializing in IT systems employed by the Italian Ministry of Economy, was arrested in Rome on the evening of Monday 14 October, when he was given an envelope containing 15 thousand euros.
A bribe paid by the owner of several companies intended to stipulate tasty contracts with the public company. This arrest triggered a vast investigation by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office into acts of corruption and manipulation of public procurement. Among those implicated is Andrea Stroppa, the “right arm” of Elon Musk in Italy, as the transalpine press defines him. This former hacker of the Anonymous cyberactivists, now specialized in computer security, has become the intermediary of the interests of the American billionaire in the country.
But what is the relationship between “Musk’s Man” and the opaque actions within Sogei? The Financial Police speaks of a “system of organized corruption, with multiple actors and ramifications within the Ministry of Defence, Sogei and the Ministry of the Interior”. It was on the basis of these suspicions that he carried out a series of house searches on Tuesday 15 October
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