The State Attorney’s Office in Bari is investigating a former employee of Intesa Sanpaolo bank. The ex-employee allegedly illegally accessed the bank accounts of VIP clients nearly 7,000 times without permission. This according to a report published by Domani on Thursday.
Those affected include Premier Giorgia Meloni, her ex-partner journalist Andrea Giambruno, and Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa.
The ex-employee is accused of violating sensitive data by illicitly accessing the accounts of thousands of clients. Alongside those already named, they include Meloni’s sister Arianna – head of the secretariat of the Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè, National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, and members of the military.
The employee was fired on 8th August, and the investigation is ongoing. Prosecutors are now trying to determine the motivation behind the extensive monitoring of these accounts. The infiltration affected over 3,500 clients at 679 branches of Intesa Sanpaolo across Italy. It took place between February 2022 and April 2024.
The accounts of Puglia and Veneto governors, Michele Emiliano and Luca Zaia, as well as Trani prosecutor Renato Nitti, Carabinieri, and finance police officers, were also accessed, according to the Domani report.
In response to the investigation, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni posted on X (formerly Twitter), sarcastically referring to the ongoing data breaches as “our daily ‘dossieraggio’,” alongside a picture with her sister Arianna and a headline from Il Giornale highlighting the probe.
