Dossier, request for arrest of Striano and Laudati. But the investigating judge says no to Cantone –

The Perugia prosecutor, Raffaele Cantone, has requested house arrest for the former deputy prosecutor Antonio Laudati, now retired, and for Pasquale Striano, lieutenant of the Guardia di Finanza and stationed for many years in the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, who is being investigated in the investigation into alleged illegal access to databases. The newspaper La Verità revealed it, specifying that “the Perugia investigating judge rejected the request because he did not take into account the needs (both are no longer in their old positions, Laudati is even retired), and apparently did not identify any risk of escape, repetition of the crime or manipulation of evidence (the investigation is closed)”.

But Cantone, according to the same newspaper, “has filed an appeal. Now the Review Court will have to consider the request in a hearing. Three judges will have to decide who is right between the prosecutor and the investigating judge.” The appeal to the Review Court will be heard at the end of this month. Laudati and Striano’s lawyers, “Andrea Castaldo and Massimo Clemente respectively, both avoided commenting extensively and directly on the decision, but they branded the request as ‘abnormal’.”