the anti-mafia makes politics. So the former prosecutor tries to save himself –

From the time of Prodi to the charm of the magistrates: the anti-mafia only deals in politics. It is a flooding river Antonio Laudati, as he shouts left and right in the first days in which the dossier scandal rages. As had already happened in Bari, the deputy prosecutor among the spies who followed the trail of the investigation into Silvio Berlusconi tries to save himself by throwing everyone into the cauldron except him.

In the documents of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Perugia, which is investigating the illegal access to the Public Prosecutor’s Office by Giovanni Falcone, there is an interception from March 5, 2024 in which Laudati speaks on the phone with Alberto Cisterna, former deputy prosecutor at the DNA and now President of the XIII Section of the Civil Court of Rome. The two colleagues reacted with alarm to the news of that wormhole of illegal access, carried out by financier Pasquale Striano in collaboration with Laudati, and then passed on the confidential information to Domani’s journalists. The magistrate under investigation is furious, the newspapers define him as the ‘anti-knight prosecutor’ and as the author, together with the financier, of those files against center-right politicians.

Cisterna tries to reassure him: «I read everything, but since I have a bad memory… I remembered that the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office had put together something similar, identical, in 2006, saying that there were Tim’s files and by issuing a decree… directly to Prodi, with which they deleted all the data of the famous Tim scandal, which clearly did not exist, with the same trend: you go to political power, you alarm him, you tells him that there is a file, the political power gets scared, they make a measure, they make a career, they deserve merit, since it is an exact replica, because I remember what happened then, something that has never been seen before , which amended the 240 of the criminal code… since the magistrates here have the habit of alarming politicians every now and then, and neither of them is used to it, let alone.”

An unexpected turn for the magistrate who was determined not to be seen as a spy. Who at that moment takes advantage of the opportunity and tries to shift responsibility to the new chief prosecutor of the anti-mafia, Giovanni Melillo, and at that moment could not imagine that Melillo himself, two days after that phone call, would appear in the anti-mafia prosecutor. – The Mafia Commission, with its long hearing in which it outlined the SOS sieve that it inherited from its predecessor, the current five-star MP Federico Cafiero De Raho, and explained the new strict guidelines that upon its arrival had infuriated the spies and not were able to have a free hand in illegal burglaries.

“First of all, the investigations were all carried out in October 2022, the one into the new government, the one where there is speculation,” Laudati told his colleague, “when Melillo was already there and Melillo had become the SOS manager, and this one here (Striano, ed.) was also his trusted man.” It is a shame that in the new papers that Public Prosecutor Raffaele Cantone sent to the Commission there is a report, complete with investigative results, which not only shows that Melillo, who realized that there was more than one thing wrong with the SOS group, had decided to depose Striano, but that it was Laudati himself who wanted the same financier, who had worked in Reggio Calabria when De Raho was prosecutor, at the head of that section.

Laudati, unaware of everything that would come out of Pandora’s box, continues to say that the case is all speculation. ‘Roberti was a candidate, Cafiero was a candidate, Grasso was president of the Senate… then it’s clear what you’re saying, but if the anti-mafia is there, they do it for political speculation, and that’s me, but imagine this thing that was a huge nonsense to me, I find myself written, you know what I went through in Bari, now I find myself written as “the anti-knight accuser”.